Arkansas City Daily Traveler
[Starting Saturday, August 12, 1922 to Saturday,August 19, 1922]
[Starting Saturday, August 12, 1922 to Saturday,August 19, 1922]
[STRIKE TIES UP TWO RAIL SYSTEMS: SANTA FE & SOUTHERN PACIFIC]
Arkansas City Daily Traveler, Saturday, August 12, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
San Francisco, Aug. 12.Trans-continental traintraffic, passenger, and freight, in the far western divisions of two mainrail systems, the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific, was disorganized todayso badly that scheduled service had been practically abandoned. A thirdtrunk line, the Union Pacific, was threatened with a similar condition.
There were developments of the rapid spreadyesterday of sporadic walkouts of engineers, firemen, conductors, and trainmen,which began Thursday on the Santa Fe in southwestern California and Arizona.The members of the "big four" brotherhoods said they left theirposts because of their objection to armed guards stationed on railroad property.The union men also charged that the equipment they were moving was not inthe best condition and they considered it hazardous to take it out. Railexecutives declared that the guards were necessary to protect the roads,denied that the guards were interfering with union workers, and contradictedthe assertion that the equipment was unsafe.
THERE WAS MORE...I SKIPPED.
Albuquerque, N. M., Aug. 12.Three transcontinentalwestbound trains on the Santa Fe are being held here today because of thewalkout of the railway brotherhoods on western divisions.
Los Angeles, Aug. 12.Seven carloads of westboundmail were reported to be tied up at Ashfork, Ariz., on the Santa Fe line.Mail from the east has been routed for a few days by way of El Paso, butthe spread of the strike was said to have blocked this channel.
Topeka, Aug. 12.The state utilities commissiontoday granted permission to take off two through trains operating in KansasKansasCity to Fort Smith, Ark., and Kansas City to Omahabut refused permissionto discontinue the central branch train, Atchison to Downs and the trainfrom Yates Center to Geneseo through Wichita and Hutchinson. At a hearingthis morning officials of the railway company said coal shortage necessitatedcutting the train schedules.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 12.Four trains running overthe Chicago and Northwestern railroad from Chicago, running over the UnionPacific after they leave Omaha, were tied up from three to four hours atBoone, Iowa, because firemen did not want to man the engines, it was statedat headquarters of the Northwestern here today.
Ogden, Utah, Aug. 12.The Southern Pacific companyannounced at 12:30 p.m. today that the locomotive firemen who went on strikein this district yesterday had agreed to go back to work. The company statedit expected to have the four marooned trains out of here sometime this afternoon.
Emporia, Aug. 12.Two east bound Santa Fe trains,Nos. 2 and 4, were annulled today, it was reported at the railroad officeshere. The trains were tied up by the brotherhood strike in the west.
[UNIONS REJECT LAST PROPOSAL OF PRESIDENT/WANTSENIORITY.]
Arkansas City Traveler, Saturday, August 12, 1922. Front Page.
Washington, Aug. 12.(A. P.)Heads of the sevenrailroad organizations now on strike were declared by one of their chiefofficials today after a final conference, to have decided to reject completelythe last strike settlement proposal put forward by President Harding.
The striking unions in a written response sentto the white house told the president they could not call off the strikeunless a guarantee was given that all of their men would be reinstated inservice with seniority rights unimpaired. The president had proposed thatthe strikers be left to the adjudication of the labor board.
Soon after the response of the striking shopmenreached the white house, heads of the non-striking unions, who have beenin conference with the shop craft leaders for the past two days, arrivedat the white house and went into conference with President Harding. SecretariesHoover and Davis, Chairman Hooper of the labor board, and Chairman Cuminsof the senate I. C. committee also participated in the conference.
Washington, Aug. 12.(A. P.)President Hardingwas said by administration advisers today to have abandoned, temporarilyat least, his plan for asking legislation of congress to deal with the railroadstrike situation. The conditional acceptance by the railroad executivesof the president's latest proposal was declared to have been the controllingfactor in the president's change of plans regarding legislation. In viewof the executives' attitude, the president according to advisers who conferredwith him last night was said immediate legislation by congress now was unnecessary.Information received today by administration spokesmen regarding the executives'conference yesterday at New York was that the vote on accepting the president'sproposal conditionally was 195 to 79. Among the railroad executives reportedin the minority were representatives of the Missouri Pacific. The minoritylater agreed to abid by the majority decision.
[SANTA FE TRAINMEN ON STRIKE ORDERED BACKBY PRESIDENT LEE.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 12.Members of the Brotherhoodof Railroad Trainmen who went on strike on the Santa Fe railroad, have beenordered to return to work, President W. G. Lee announced today, in declaringthat their walkout was unauthorized inasmuch as the regular procedure insettling disputes had not been carried out. President Lee said he had notsanctioned the Santa Fe strike.
[BLAST AT ROSEVILLE, CAL./MORE BOMBS AT SANBERNARDINO]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Roseville, Calif., August 12.Five bombs wereexploded in the yards of the Southern Pacific and the Pacific Fruit ExpressCompany here early this morning. One of the bombs exploded at 2 a.m. inthe rear of roundhouse No. 1. Windows in the building were shattered anda portion of the wall nearest the explosion was wrecked. Three of the bombstore a great hole in the ground in the east side of the yards near the plantof the Pacific Fruit Express company. Immediately following the explosions,company guards poured shots in the direction from which the bombs were reportedto have been hurled. Answering volleys of shots met their firing. More thanone hundred shots were exchanged.
San Bernardino, Calif., Aug. 12.Four additionalbomb explosions occurred in the Santa Fe railroad yard here following theexplosion yesterday morning of twenty-three bombs in the same yards. Officersare investigating four fragments of large bombs constructed out of pipeelbows plugged with steel slugs and apparently loaded with chemicals. Noone was injured by the bombs and no damage of consequence occasioned.
With a temperature of 120 and with food runningout, marooned passengers at Needles and Barstow were said to be in distresstoday and it was reported here that railroad officials would make an effortto bring them into San Bernardino today under heavy guard. Some of the elderlypersons among the passengers were reported to be on the verge of heat prostration.
[PARALYSIS ALL RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION THREATENEDBY BIG FOUR]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Chicago, Aug. 12.Nation-wide paralysis of railroadtransportation threatened today as "big four" brotherhood menin various parts of the country called meetings to consider joining thetrainmen's walkout that started when crews tied up transcontinental SantaFe trains in the California and Arizona deserts and freight traffic on theElgin, Joliet & Eastern outer belt line for the Chicago district.
Clerks on the Santa Fe coast lines were authorizedto walkout if they considered conditions unsatisfactory.
Southern Pacific firemen joined the walkout,tying up limited passenger trains at Ogden, Utah.
Although several Santa Fe passenger trains heldup by the strike at California points were backed into Los Angeles, othertranscontinental trains were stranded in the desert. Passengers maroonedat Seligman, Ariz., appealed to Santa Fe officials to relieve them fromtheir plight, declaring that women and children were suffering. The pleawas passed on to brotherhood officials at Needles, Calif. They were urgedby the company to consider the situation from a humanitarian standpoint.Passengers on the stranded trains sweltered in the heat of the desert, butmany accepted their fate philosophically and some wore blue bands on theirsleeves, signifying their sympathy with the strikers.
[CAPTURE OF DOC O'BRIEN WAS NOT UNWELCOMETO FUGITIVE.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
Winfield, Kan., Aug. 12."Doc" O'Brien,who escaped from the county jail on the evening of July 4 and was recapturedtwo weeks later, is not looking for another chance to get away. Doc toldthe Jones brothers so when they asked him to leave with them, and he doesnot regret having remained in jail.
"This place is not so bad," O'Brientold the sheriff recently. "If I had stayed here in the first place,I wouldn't be in for jail breaking now and would be better off."
O'Brien said that he and Jack Burgess, who escapedwith him, went for two days and nights without food and no water exceptthat found in streams. Finally they met a man they knew and borrowed a dollar.They spent it for crackers and cheese and ate the mess of it.
"Doc" told the sheriff: "Thegrub is pretty good here and ice water is plentiful."
[PRINCIPALS OF RAID MADE AT 606 NORTH E STREETTRIED.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
The principals of the raid made by the policeat 606 North E Street night before last were tried in the city court lastevening at the 5 o'clock session. The parties under arrest were CaldoniaWalker, Ellis Fuller, Sandy Washington, and Jack Woods, all negroes, exceptingWoods. Two other white men, Jerry Noonan and Chas. C. Brown arrested inthe raid, failed to appear in court and their bonds of $10 each were forfeited.
Caldonia Walker testified point blank that shehad not sold Jack Woods a quart of choc beer for which he paid her one dollar,after the witness, Woods, in his testimony had given all the details ofthe purchase of the liquor from her. When the court fined her $100 and addeda jail sentence of thirty days, the defendant weakened and wept.
"I don't see why I shouldn't be permittedto have counsel," the woman stated. Whereupon the court said he wouldcontinue the case and give her a chance to secure an attorney.
The testimony of those taken in the raid disclosedthe fact that there was an unlawful assemblage at 606 North E Street onthe night of August 10. Dice, women, and drink figured in the gathering,according to the statements of the defendants on the stand.
According to testimony given the place at 606North E was operated by a fellow by the name of Lucius Wafer, a negro. Thetestimony indicated that Wafer had made his get-away and evaded arrest.If Wafer was a married man, as one witness stated, he had not been livingwith his wife. If Caldonia Walker is a married woman, as she stated, shehas not been living with her husband, but was rooming with Wafer. She testifiedthat she was 18 years old. Incidentally, her testimony brought out the factthat she had lost a 32 gun on the night of the raid, which she said belongedto her husband, who was out of town.
All the witnesses testified that there was chocbeer on the table and that two white men were drinking and exhibiting aspirit of goodfellowship by pouring extra glasses for anyone present toimbibe if they so desired. It appears that the spirit of chivalry was revived,sometimes thought to be dead in this country. The white men were saying"toasts," one witness testified.
Ellis Fuller, negro, the first witness up, saidhe had gone to the place to see Sandy Washington. He saw the white boysdrinking, but said he never drank any himself. He sat in a chair and participatedin the conversation.
The usual "razor" showed up in thecase. Sandy Washington was at the party. He was going to T Turner's to returna razor; and in passing Lucius Wafer's place, heard merriment on the insideand went in. He saw the white men drinking. "Lucius Wafer left whenthe law came," he testified. He it was who said the two white men weresaying "toasts." Sandy said there was liquor on the table, butstated that he never drank.
Jack Woods, white, pleaded guilty to unlawfulassemblage. He admitted he had gone to the place to purchase corn whiskey,but said they had choc beer. He testified that the lady got the choc beerout of a jug and that he paid her $1 for it.
"Did you drink any of it? the court asked.
"I didn't have time, the police entered.I dropped the whiskey down by my side," said Woods. Woods states thatwhen he entered the place, the whole bunch was shooting craps.
After the examination of witnesses, the courtannounced the fine and stence against Caldonia Walker, who was then giventhe opportunity to secure counsel. Whether she accepts the verdict of thecourt or tries to put up another defense remains to be seen.
[JOHN POOR, KG&E EMPLOYEE, IS IMPROVING.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
John Poor, of the Kansas Gas & ElectricCo., who suffered a fractured skull and other injuries in a fall from abridge yesterday and who is a patient in a local hospital, was reportedto be doing nicely today and is improving as rapidly as expected at thistime.
[OLDROYD & SONS UNLOAD FURNITURE FORGLADSTONE HOTEL.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
T. B. Oldroyd & Sons today unloaded a carof furniture for the new Gladstone hotel and placed it in the building.The car of goods came in several days ago over the Santa Fe.
[JOE KELLY, 16, ROBBED CASH REGISTER AT CONNELLY& KARNES.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
Left in sole charge of Connelly & Karnes'cold drink and lunch stand at 111 South Summit Street, for a few momentsyesterday afternoon, Joe Kelly, 16, robbed the cash register and vamoosed.According to the proprietors of the place, the "kid" got awaywith somewhere around $100.
While his partner, Connelly, was out, Mr. Karnesleft the boy in charge of the place while he went to Roseberry & Williams,the automobile dealers, to look after his car, as he wanted to use it about4 o'clock. When he arrived at Roseberry's place, he found Mr. Connelly alreadythere. He returned to their place of business and noticed that the boy wasnot in the front part where customers are served, but supposed he was inthe kitchen. Presently he wanted to speak to the boy about something andwent into the kitchen, but did not find him there. Neither was he in theroom farthest to the rear.
He then went to the front part of the placeand inquired of the young lady who clerks in the place on the other sideof the partition, in the same building, asking if she had noticed the boy.She said he was there just a few minutes previous. Then Mr. Karnes examinedthe cash register and found the money gone.
Mr. Karnes notified the police and the two proprietorstogether with the police began a search. After a few minutes, Marion Clayton,who runs a cold drink stand in Paris Park, telephoned that he had seen theboy who works in Connelly & Karnes place going up the Frisco mill tracknear the park. A vigilant search was made in this neighborhood. The sheriffat Winfield and officers in other towns were notified. The search was continuedinto the night; but no trace of the thief could be found after he had beenseen going north on the Frisco mill switch.
Not much seems to be known about the boy here.He was stopping at the A. C. rooms and his parents do not live here. Itis thought he would probably ride a freight train and get out of the country.
Since the above story was written, other factshave come to light. The O. J. Watson Motor company reported that Kelly hadcome to their place of business about 8 o'clock last evening and hired adrive-it-yourself Ford touring car, starting out of town north on Summitstreet. Up to noon today he had not returned with the car.
Evidently the lad had hidden in the weeds orfound some other hiding place in or near town until after dark, then boldlyventured into the city to hire a car. The two business firms are now anxiousto locate the youthful thief.
[FAILED GEUDA SPRINGS CITIZEN'S STATE BANKHAS SHRINKAGE.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
A shrinkage of over fifty percent in the assetsof the failed Citizen's State Bank is indicated in the petition of the receiver,B. V. Curry, filed in district court today, suing A. A. McFall, principlestockholder in the bank, for the face value of the amount of his shares,$6,800, to apply on the indebtedness of the bank. So far from having $141,704in assets, as indicated by the bank's books at the time of the closing ofits doors, there will be less than $70,852, the petition states.
The suit is brought under the double liabilityprovision of the Kansas statutes. McFall has sixty-eight shares out of thehundred shares in the bank of a par value of a hundred dollars each, thepetition sets out. These are fully paid up. Stockholders in corporationsare liable for the debts of the corporation to twice the face value of thestock, deducting the amount they have already paid in.
This will make McFall liable for $6,800.
[OLD GLADSTONE HOTEL BUILDING TO OPEN.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
The old Gladstone hotel building, recently purchasedby Swan Sandstrum, of Dexter, is to be improved and re-decorated throughout,and newly equipped with furniture. Mr. Sandstrum states that this work hasall been delayed on account of putting new plumbing in the building. Hedid not decide at once to put this plumbing in, but finally decided to makethe place modern in every respect, and then there was some delay in receivingthe material for this work. But it has arrived and the plumber is busy.
The building is to be completely plumbed throughout,although tubs will not be in all the rooms at the present time, but willbe added later as occasion may demand. This part of the equipment is a prettycostly proposition. The building will also have a lot of new electricalwork and the walls will be newly papered and the woodwork painted.
When Mr. Sandstrum gets ready to open this hotelto the public, he will have some 40 or 50 good rooms. He expects to leasethe dining room and kitchen to an experienced eating house man so that theguests will be provided with a modern place to eat, with a large diningroom and a commodious lobby that will be comfortably furnished and wherepatrons may rest.
The first shipment of furniture arrived todayand is being stacked in the ground floor rooms pending the completion ofthe plumbing and decorating. Mr. Sandstrum has not yet named the house,but proposes to make it a comfortable and attractive stopping place.
[MOORE REFINERY NOTES]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
Charles Isaac, superintendent of the Moore refinery,has gone to Tulsa to spend Sunday at home. P. W. Wilkins is in charge duringhis absence. Guy Thurman, who was scalded at the Moore refinery July 23by the bursting of a steam line, was dismissed from the hospital today.It is thought he will be able to resume work in about ten days. D. E. Emerson,telephone expert with the Cosden company at Tulsa, has been doing some workon the Moore refinery switchboard. He and Mrs. Emerson will return to Tulsathis evening by auto.
One of the Comley Lumber company trucks hasbeen busy all day today delivering a big lumber order to the new high pressurestills at the Moore plant. Twelve cars of gasoline, three cars of fuel oil,and three cars of lubricating oil are being loaded today. Arrangements arebeing made so that the six inch stream of water that comes from the condensercoils of the refrigerator division of the wax plant can be used by the refiningdepartment, thus conserving the water supply.
[VIRGIL LaSARGE ARRESTED ON THREE CHARGES.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
An automobile, a gun, and liquor figure in anight episode in this city, and as an outgrowth of this combination, VirgilLaSarge was placed under arrest last night with three charges lodged againsthim, viz., driving a car while drunk, carrying concealed weapons, and disturbingthe peace. He arranged bond for appearance in police court Monday evening.
The call to the police station was made by thenight clerk at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ted Young, who is substituting forHarold Hughey. According to the clerk's statement, LaSarge threatened himwith a gun when he refused to let him have a room. The affair happened latelast evening.
E. R. Ketner has given his clerks notificationnot to allow LaSarge to have a room "when he is drinking."
Mr. Ketner stated today: "I cannot keepthem from coming into the lobby, so long as they act like gentlemen, butI have served notice on them that I do not want them in my rooms."
QUESTION: WHAT DID KETNER MEAN BY "THEM"????
[MISSOURI PACIFIC DECREASES NUMBER OF TRAINSLOCALLY.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
According to the local agent for the MissouriPacific railway, M. E. Spencer, two trains will be taken off the run betweenthis city and Dexter, beginning Monday. They are train No. 750 leaving thecity at 9:50 a.m., and No. 759, arriving here at 3 in the afternoon. BeginningMonday there will be only one mixed train each way a day, on this line,and the train will leave here at 7 in the morning and will arrive here fromDexter at 3:35 in the afternoon. This and other trains on the Missouri Pacificare taken off on account of the coal shortage.
[FORD CAR "GUILTY"]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922
Winfield, Kansas, Aug. 12.A Ford car was foundguilty in Justice O'Hare's court today after a trial on a charge of beinga nuisance, having been used for transportation of liquor. It is the carcaptured by the officers in arresting Bright and Strum, liquor suspects,last February. The men had stopped the car in front of a Main Street roominghouse, and one of them had started upstairs with a two-quart jar of something.When the officers appeared unexcpectedly on the scene, the man dropped thejar on the stairs and broke it. Enough liquor remained in a fragment ofthe glass to convict the men of having liquor in their
possession.
Having been used for transporting the two-quartjar, the Ford car was also deemed guilty. The trial resulted in convictionand an order that the car be sold. The Watson Motor Co., of Arkansas City,claims to have a mortgage on the car. The attorney for the company defendedthe car, and when the sentence was given, gave notice of appeal to the districtcourt.
[GRAVITY OF STRIKE INCREASING/HUNDREDS OF"BIG FOUR" WALK OUT.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Corbin, Ky., Aug. 14.Twelve hundred trainmen,members of the big four brotherhoods employed on the Cumberland divisionof the Louisville and Nashville railroad, left their trains at 10 a.m. today.This ties up the Great Harlan and Bell coal districts. The walkout was orderly.
Raton, New Mexico, Aug. 14.Local officials ofthe big four brotherhoods here today wired to national headquarters forsanction for a walkout of all members of the organization employed on theSanta Fe railroad here. The telegram sets forth the conditions under whichthe members are now working as reason for the walkout.
St. Louis, Aug. 14.Resolutions asking the AmericanFederation of Labor to call a national general strike and requesting PresidentHarding to have an investigtion made of "airbrake equipment in connectionwith the numerous accidents occurring throughout the country," havebeen adopted by the Central Trades and Labor Union of St. Louis, it wasannounced today. The central trades organization includes all local unionworkmen, except members of the building trades.
The resolution asking a general strike was thesame as one recently adopted by Omaha Central Trades body and directed attentionto the textile workers strike in New England, the shopmen's strike, andthe miners strike. A general strike was asked so that "this warfareupon American homes may cease and a free people be permitted to live inpeace."
The resolution sent to Mr. Harding declaredthat "locomotive engineers say none of the trains leaving St. Louisare fully equipped with air owing to the incapacity of the shops, becauseof the strike, to properly care for the rolling stock."
Executives of railroads having general officesin St. Louis, vehemently decided the air brakes were not defective in anyrespect.
Springfield, Mo., Aug. 14.The dynamite explosionwhich wrecked the west end of the St. Louis, San Francisco railroad bridgeover the Sac river just west of Ash Grove near here, about 8:50 o'clocklast night, temporarily stopping all traffic on the main line of the Friscobetween Kansas City and Springfield, was being investigated today by DeputyUnited States marshals and Frisco officials. The wrecking crew from FortScott was at work repairing the bridge this morning and the bridge was expectedto be sufficiently repaired to make traffic possible over it by 3 p.m. today.No trace has been found of those doing the dynamiting, as far as could belearned from marshals here today. Frisco officials here refused to giveout any details of the dynamiting. A freight train had just passed overthe bridge a few minutes before the blast destroyed it. The bridge is almosta quarter of a mile long. Trains were being detoured today by way of Monnett.
Cleveland, Aug. 14.(A. P.)W. G. Lee, presidentof the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, today instructed two vice presidentsof his organization to go immediately upon the Santa Fe coast lines whereillegal strikes of trainmen are reported in effect and trains marooned.
"Instructions were given the vice presidents,"Mr. Lee said, "to insist that all laws of the brotherhood regardingcessation of work be complied with and members continue at work."
Mr. Lee declined to say anything further regardingthe railroad situation.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 14.There is no necessitynow for curtailment of service on the Frisco in Kansas, President J. M.Kurn, of the road, today telegraphed Clyde M. Reed, chairman of the PublicUtilities Commission, saying that the road's normal requirements of 50 carsof coal daily for running its Kansas lines could be met by thirty cars allowedit under the industrial court priority order and 20 cars to be hauled indaily from Alabama. The hearing scheduled for today between the commissionand Frisco officials was called off.
San Francisco, Aug. 14.(A. P.)The Santa Fe systemvirtually was paralyzed by walkouts of brotherhood men at Needles, Cal.,Seligman, Arizona, Ash Fork, Willians, and Winslow, Arizona, today, andthere was one in prospect at Albuqurque, New Mexico.
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[SCATTERED VIOLENCE BEGINNING OF SEVENTHWEEK OF STRIKE.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Chicago, Aug. 14.(A. P.)New knots in railroadtransportation of the far west; bombing of a passenger train loaded withexcursionists at Granton Junction, N. J., dynamiting of Frisco railroadbridge at Ash Grove, Mo., and destruction by fire of the Wichita Falls andNorthwestern railway shopts at Wichita Falls, Texas, marked the early hoursof the rail strike's seventh week, while rail heads and strike leaders weredeadlocked over President Harding's proposals for peace.
The walkout of Santa Fe train crews, who lefttheir trains stranded in the deserts of California, Arizona, and New Mexico,spread to other western lines and as the railroad paralysis crept on tonew centers, maintenance of way men in the New York district petition theirnational leaders for a strike order.
Santa Fe officials manning the stranded trainsat Needles, California, moved marooned passengers out of the desert, but19 trains on the system were still tied up when more crews quit.
One thousand Santa Fe passengers stranded atAlbuquerque, New Mexico, appealed to President Harding for relief, and federalinquiry into the tie-up was ordered by Joseph Burke, United States districtattorney at Los Angeles, following communication with Attorney General Daugherty.
At the same time Gov. Thomas E. Campbell ofArizona ordered an investigation of conditions among marooned passengersat Seligman, following reports of suffering.
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[ARKANSAS CITY: LOCAL MAN IS BEATEN; SHOTSFIRED AT SHOPS.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
As the result of an alleged attack by four menon one of the men employed in the Santa Fe shops here, who some weeks agoaccepted a position there, after the strike of the machinists and the carmenat this point, Walter Skeen is in the company hospital at Mulvane, sufferingfrom a fractured shoulder and minor bruises. The alleged assault occurredlate Saturday evening as Skeen was on his way to the shops, after makinga trip uptown.
Local Santa Fe officials made an investigationof the assault case that night and a report was sent to company headquartersat Topeka, relating the facts, as they could be gathered at that time, withthe result that Sheriff Goldsmith of Winfield was notified to make an investigationof the case. He came here to see Skeen Sunday morning, but the injured manwas on the way to the hospital when the officer arrived. The statement ofthe man assaulted was given to J. H. Fry, head of the special officer departmentof the Oklahoma division. Sheriff Goldsmith stated to the Travelertoday that he could find no trace of the men who are alleged to have committedthe assault. He was in the city again this morning to look further intothe matter of the assault and also to investigate shooting at the southyards early Sunday morning. He said he did not learn anything definite inregard to the shooting. He stated that he investigated both sides of thestory and that he could not ascertain who was to blame, or where the shootingcame from. Some of the parties he interviewed in regard to the matter statedthat the shooting was on the inside of the yards and others said it camefrom the outside of the yards. He saw the engine, into which it was saidone of the bullets entered.
County Attorney Ellis Fink of Winfield was calledover the phone this afternoon, and he stated that the official reports ofthe assault and shooting here had not been given to him and he did not knowat this time just what action will be taken in the matter by his office.Further than this, he had nothing to give out on the subject.
In regard to the reported beating of WalterSkeen, employed at the local Santa Fe shops, J. H. Fry, chief special officerfor the Oklahoma division, gave out the following statement.
"Walter Skeen, 55, left the shops Saturdayevening to go uptown for a shave. On leaving the barber shop about 10 o'clock,he boarded a street car and rode to the end of the line on South D street.After alighting from the car in front of the Kinninmonth produce plant,he walked in the direction of the shops to or about the Midland Valley crossing,where he was accosted by four men, one of whom asked him where he workedand what he was doing in that vicinity. I don't know what his reply was.Skeen said he was hit almost immediately in the right jaw, knocking himdown. As he lay on his side, one of the party kicked him in the left shoulderand then jumped on him with both feet, stamping him as he lay on the ground.His attackers then left him and he made his way to the shops, where he askedthat a doctor be called. Dr. M. M. Miller was called, and upon examination,said Skeen's left shoulder blade was fractured. The physician administeredfirst aid and the injured man was sent to Mulvane hospital Sunday morningon train No. 406. Skeen was a stranger here, having been employed at theshops since the strike was called. It was his first trip uptown since goingto work."
Other than the statement above, which was givento a Traveler reporter this morning by Mr. Fry, local officials havegiven out nothing in regad to the assault of Skeen.
In regard to the shooting which was said tohave occurred at or near the Santa Fe shops early Sunday morning, Mr. Frydid not know the particulars. He had been informed there was some shootingthere, but it is his opinion that it did not take place on the Santa Feright of way. He said that he examined the hole in the engine cab windowand that it was his opinion that the hole was not made by a bullet. Mr.Fry stated that there were 35 special deputies on the job at the Santa Fehere at this time.
Members of the local strike forces say thatthe alleged trouble at the shops, both in connection with the assault andshooting, is between the special officer force and the strike breakers atthe south yards. They still contend that none of the members of the strikingforces have ever started any trouble of any sort here since the walkouton July 1.
E. Breene, chairman of the shopmen's federation,reports that a man who was either a guard or an armed strikebreaker gotup on the high fence between the roundhouse and the city property on Sundaymorning and openly hurled defiance to anyone who might be within hearingdistance.
At the time J. E. Hamon, a car repairer, residingat 1501 South G street just back of the shops, happened to be standing inhis back yard, and heard the threats and defiant language used by the manon the fence.
"I suppose the man was a guard; at least,he had a gun, which he flourished in a reckless manner, saying in a loadtone, 'I am looking for trouble,'" Mr. Hamon stated, according to Mr.Breene.
A committee from the striking shopmen was authorizedto go to Winfield this afternoon to take this and other matters up withthe county authorities.
C. H. Warren, of 1024 South C Street, engineeron the night switch engine at the south yards, was on the engine which wasthe target for one of the shots, which was said to have been fired at thesouth yards early Sunday morning. He gave the following statement to theTraveler today.
"I was in the cab of the engine when thesecond of the volley of some thirty shots entered the window of my engine.I do not know where the shot came from; and if I had seen the person whofired the shot, I certainly would have tried to get him. I was not injuredby the shot. There were other shots fired earlier in the night than theones which were fired at the time the cab window was fired upon. I do notknow who fired any of the shots. I have resided in this city for the pastfive years and have been in the employ of the company all that time."
Emporia, Aug. 14.Following the disturbancesat Newton Saturday night when several deputies were beaten by a mob, EliRaymond, head of the railroad guards at Emporia, issued an order compellingguards to check in their revolvers when leaving the railroad property. Guardscarrying arms on the streets of Emporia have caused much unrest among thestrikers. Sheriff Charles Gibson has asked Attorney General Hopkins foran opinion on the question of guards' authority off the railroad right ofway, but no ruling has been received.
Hutchinson, Kan., Aug. 14.Lane Patton, 19, sonof Sheriff Patton of Harvey county, who was beaten by strikers in frontof a theatre in Newton on Saturday night, was able to go back to work inthe shops this morning. Sheriff Patton said this morning that warrants werebeing issued and the men in the mob would be tried under the industrialcourt law. Young Patton was a Kansas University boy.
Newton, Kan., Aug. 14.The strike situation wasquiet here today following disorders Saturday night which subsided immediatelywhen Newton national guard troops appeared on the scene. Company C fromEmporia arrived from Herington this morning, exchanging places with CompanyF of Newton. Representatives of the attorney general's office, here today,said warrants for several arrests would be issued. Leaders of the strikersand others emphasize the assertion that very few actual strikers took partin the disturbance in which ten or twelve deputy sheriffs and strikebreakersare now reported to have been beaten; the main body consisting of strikesympathizers, including some women.
[RELIEF TRAIN ARRIVES FROM THE DESERT.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
San Bernardino, Cal., Aug. 14.(A. P.)A SantaFe train carrying approximately 125 passengers, many of whom were sufferingthe effects of the terrific heat of the desert, arrived in this city fromNeedles last night. A guard armed with repeating rifles was on the observationcar all across the desert. A physician and nurse boarded the train here,being called by railroad officials to treat J. M. Norris, 91, Los Angeles,who was overcome by the heat at Needles last Saturday.
William Hendrick, machinist mate, United Statesnavy, enroute to San Diego, worked continuously over the sick man as thetrain sped on to San Bernardino. Hendrick, fatigued from three sleeplessnights on the desert, was aided by women passengers who made ice packs andcarried water to the compartment where the injured man lay unconscious.
"Grandma" Melissa Wooden, 94, andtraveling alone, from the east to her home in Berkeley, California, wassmiling when the train arrived here, although so weak she could hardly talk.For three days "Grandma" Wooden suffered intensely from the swelteringtemperature on the desert. Women passengers secured electric fans and attendedher in the railroad hotel at Needles.
A story of how a mother and father fought deathfor their 18 months old baby was told by Mr. and Mrs. William Hebree, ofDenver. Mrs. Hebree slept but a few hours in three days, working nearlyall the time with her husband over the child, Robert, overcome by the heat."Fresh milk was unobtainable at the railroad hotel and until Saturdaywe were unable to procure elsewhere any for the baby," Mrs. Hebreesaid. "People of the town heard of our plight, and an engineer openedhis home to us. A woman's organizationsome people have human heartssecuredthe milk for the baby. I am sure their action saved Robert's life. The temperaturein the Pullman cars was 130 degrees at one time."
N. McDonald, returning from Los Angeles to hishome in Kansas City, was one of the five passengers composing a committeeto request the striking trainmen and enginemen to move the trains. "Thestriking railroad men treated us as outcasts and answered our request tomove the trains and relieve the suffering with the reply: 'Go to hell,'"he declared.
J. A. Pullar, master mechanic of the Santa Fe'sLos Angeles division, and George Anderson, road foreman of engines, formedthe engine crew on the relief train out of Needles.
[PEACE RESTS WITH UNIONS IN RAIL WAR.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Washington, Aug. 14.The executives having submittedtheir conditional acceptance to President Harding and departed with thegovernment outwardly marking time, developments today in the rail strikesettlement parley lay with the unions still considering the proposal ofthe president that the railroad board be permitted to settle the questionof seniority.
In many quarters it was believed the real keyto the situation was held by the four railway brotherhoods.
Though it has been said the striking shopmen'schiefs had prepared a statement rejecting the president's proposal, thefact this statement had been withheld from publication up to the time theconference of union leaders reassembled this morning was taken as an indicationthere still was a possibility they might reconsider. In this connection,some significance was attached to the statement of L. E. Sheppard, presidentof the railway conductors, last night that the four brotherhoods chairmenwould act as a committee of mediation "until congress gets back intosession."
The chief condition upon which the majorityof the rail executives voted acceptance: "such acceptance involvesno surrender of the principles with respect to seniority adopted by thecarriers Aug. 1, 1922." Their statement said there was insistence bythe carriers head that the labor board would pass upon the relative seniorityof loyal employees who remained at work. The majority acceptance of theexecutives further provided striking employees be assigned to their formerpositions where vacancies exist and that where their former positions havebeen filled, other employment of the same class be found for them. A minorityresolution provides for restoring former positions to strikers only wherevacancies exist.
When the executives left the impression prevailedamong them that the strike would be fought out to a finish and that thegovernment would not attempt further effort at compromise.
[MOORE REFINERY NOTES]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
The treating plant at the Moore refinery hastwo 2400 barrel agitators for the treating of gasoline, benzine, naptha,and coal oil. There are four 600-barrel agitators for the treating of lubricatingoils, wax, and sometimes crude. Treating is accomplished by adding sulphuricacid, lye, sulphur, litharg, and other chemicals after which the contentsof the agitator are stirred by admitting air. Treating is one of the mostimportant works in the refinery. It is done under the supervision of thelaboratory. James Knight, Joe Hadley, and Charles Moss are the treatorsat the plant.
A part of the fire regulations posted at theplant are: In case of fire, all employees outside the plant must reportimmediately. No one will be admitted to the plant except employees and thecity fire fighting department. Fire fighting is in charge of the superintendent,assistant superintendent, pipe fitter foreman, and stillman in charge ofbattery three, in the order named. A succession of short blasts of the whistlemeans the fire is east of the railway yards; long blasts, at the stillsand rundown tanks; long and short blasts, at west storage tanks.
A big shipment of supplies and equipment forthe laboratory has been received.
Another fire occurred at the Moore plant onSaturday afternoon, when the scaffolding around the new condensor towersbeing installed at Battery No. 3 caught fire from the flame of the acetylenewelder. The fire raged furiously; and for a time it looked as though itwould be serious, as there is an immense amount of scaffolding on batteryNo. 3 at this time because of the remodeling work going on there. Therewere also two stills in operation and there was danger of igniting thesestills. The fire was extinguished by hand extinguishers and a soda engine.The men also dipped water from the condensor pans to quench the blaze. Warnedby this fire, the warehouse manager, Mr. Bliss, immediately placed a bigorder for chemicals and supplies for the fire fighting equipment of theplant.
[NEW BRIDGE WORKING: TIMBER CREEK ON FLORALROAD.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
Winfield, Aug. 14.A temporary wooden bridgeon Timber creek on the road north of the state school has been finishedand is now open to traffic. It is a low line bridge, a few feet above thenormal stage of the water.
In planning for the new permanent bridge atthis place, the intention of the highway engineer is to do away with thedangerous turn made by the detour of the road to get to the old bridge.The trees and undergrowth have been cut out on the section line, straightthrough, so the survey can be made for a straight road, north and south.Indications are that good rock foundation for the piers will be found atpractical working depth. A concrete "T" girder structure is plannedfor the new bridge site.
The old bridge was placed where it was becausethe road went that way. The creek at the place the section line crossedwas not fordable at the time the road was laid out, hence the deflectionto the west.
[ARKANSAS CITY JUNIOR COLLEGE]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
Superintendent St. John, Dean Heffelfinger,and Principal Gilliland returned yesterday morning from Lawrence, aftera full day's consultation and conference with the University committee onadvanced standing.
Mr. Heffelfinger and Mr. Gilliland had previouslyinspected the Junior Colleges at Fort Scott, Kansas City, Kansas, and KansasCity, Missouri, holding conferences there with the school authorities.
The university committee assured these men thatthe courses offered in the Junior College here in the two years as outlinedat the conference will be fully accredited by the univesity. The text booksused will be the same insofar as possible and the outline of instructionwill parallel that of the university. Accredited relations with universitymeans accredited relations with any other college.
A conference was being held this afternoon atthe old senior high school building with those graduates of this year'shigh school class who could be reached by telephone, so that
after their selection of subjects the propercombination of teaching requirements could be met. All freshmen interestedin the college course who were not present this afternoon are urged to meetfor a conference tomorrow morning at 9:00 o'clock or as soon thereafteras convenient.
The following outline was given to each prospectivefreshman this afternoon and fully explains the course and requirements ofthe first semester.
Following are the courses offered for the firstsemester 1922-23 by the Arkansas City Junior College.
I. English; Library Methods, 1 hour;
College Rhetoric, 3 hours;
English Literature, 2 hours;
Public Speaking, 2 hours (debate).
II. Ancient Languages, Latin 1 (Beginning),5 hours;
Latin 2 (Virgil), 5 hours.
III. Modern Languages; Spanish 1, 5 hours;
Spanish 2, 5 hours.
IV. Mathematics, College Algebra, 3 hours; 5hours.
V. Physical Science, Chemistry, 5 hours.
VI. Biological Science (not offered first semester).
VII. History, (Europe), 3 hours;
Economic Geography, 3 hours;
Elements of Economics, 5 hours.
VIII. Philosophy and Psychology (not offeredFreshman year).
1. Library Methods and College Rhetoric is requiredof all freshmen during both semesters.
2. The maximum hours carried each semester issixteen for every student, exclusive of library methods.
3. For graduation from the Junior College, thestudent must have completed in the two years sixty hours (exclusive of librarymethods) of which number five hours must be taken from each of six of theeight groups.
4. During the two years no student will be allowedto take more than 20 hours in one department.
5. Students offering two or more years of highschool Spanish will enter Spanish 2. Other students will enter Spanish 1.
6. Latin 2 is offered only to those studentswho have had two or more years of high school Latin. Latin 1 is beginningLatin.
7. If a student begins a foreign language incollege, he must offer ten hours before graduation.
8. College Algebra as offered is a three hourcourse for those having had one and one- half years of high school Algebra.If only one year of high school Algebra has been studied, this course isa 5 hour one.
The preceding courses will fully meet all requirementsof the college of liberal arts of the University of Kansas.
For students desiring credit in the specialschools of the university, the following courses will fully meet all requirementsof the first semester of the freshman year. For the second semester of thefreshman year in these four schools other accredited courses will be offered.
School of Law- English 5; Latin 5; Mathematics 3-5; Science 5.
School of Medicine -English 3-5; Chemistry 5; Modern Language 5; Latin 5; Economics 3-5.
School of Pharmacy -English 3; Chemistry 5; Mathematics 3-6; Foreign Language (Latin) 5.
School of Engineering -English 3-5; Mathematics 3-5; Chemistry 5.
[B. P. ANDREWS, WELL KNOWN COLORED MAN, DIEDAT HOME.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
NOTE: I DO NOT KNOW WHICH IS CORRECT...SUBJECTOF ARTICLE SHOWED INITIALS B. P. --- ARTICLE BEGAN WITH INITIALS P. B.
P. B. Andrews, colored, of 703 North Fourthstreet, died at the family home early Sunday morning, following a severaldays illness. The cause of death is given as double pneumonia.
Mr. Andrews was one of the best known coloredmen in this city and he had resided in this vicinity since 1871, at whichtime he took up a claim in Bolton township. He and his family resided onthis farm for many years and later moved to the city. He is survived bythe wife, who is now ill, and three children, and one grandchild and onegreat-grandchild. The children are Mrs. Dora B. Hubbard, of Nowata, Okla.,Mrs. Francis fa*gan of this city, and Bert Andrews of Long Beach, California.The granddaughter is Mrs. Junita Martin, and the great grandchild is ImogeneMartin.
Mr. Andrews was a veteran of the Civil War andwas a well known member of the Negro Masons. He came to this city from Dawagiac,Michigan, where he was born in August, 1842. He was married to Mary M. Purcell,March 6, 1872, at that place. To this union five children were born, twoof whom preceded him to the grave.
He was first sergeant in Company G, 42nd regiment,colored infantry, in the Civil War. Dora Hubbard, the oldest child of thefamily, was the first colored child born in Cowley County. Mr. Andrews wasa member of the A. M. E. church of this city. All of the children are hereexcept the son.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoonat 3:30, at the A. M. E. church, in charge of Rev. W. E. Smith. Officialsof the A. F. & A. M. lodge, No. 132, will have a part in the services;also the G. A. R.'s are asked to attend in a body and act as honorary pallbearers. They will meet at the house at 3 o'clock. Interment will be madein Mercer cemetery.
[BIDS ALL REJECTED BY RECEIVER/TRADERS STATEBANK BUILDING.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
Bids on the Traders State Bank building, whichwere opened Saturday night, were all rejected, according to E. H. Armstrong,in charge of the affairs of the bank here for the receiver. The bids wereall considered too low and therefore were not considered. The receiver maysell the building at private sale, or bids may be asked for to be openedat a later date.
[EARLE CHADWELL, MOTOR POLICEMAN, RECEIVESNEW MOTORCYCLE.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
Earle Chadwell, the motor policeman, has a brandnew motorcycle, purchased last week from a Wichita house. It is an Indianmachine and is about the latest word in motorcycles.
[LaSARGE/CORNEILSON/CALDONIA WALKER]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
Not an entry was made on the police court docketsince Saturday up to this morning. Pending cases are assigned for hearingin court this evening as follows: Virgil LaSarge, charged with driving anautomobile while intoxicated, carrying concealed weapons, and disturbingthe peace; Herbert Corneilson, charged with attempted assault upon the personof Tony Larees. Caldonia Walker, the negro woman convicted in police courtSaturday asked for time to secure counsel after having been assessed a fineof $100, did not take advantage of the court's officer to allow her timeto get an attorney, but made arrangements to take care of her fine.
[NEW PARKING ORDINANCE IS PASSED/TREES/SEWERCONSTRUCTION.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
The ordinance making the tax levy for the cityexpenses for the forthcoming year was adopted at the regular weekly meetingof the city commissioners this morning. The total levy is fourteen mills,covering various classes of expenditures as follows.
General expenses, 3 mills.
Interest and principal on bonded indebtedness,5.2 mills.
Street and alleys, building bridges, culverts,and sewers, 2 mills.
Hydrants, 0.3 mills.
Library maintenance, 0.5 mills.
Public parks, 0.4 mills.
New street lights, 0.8 mills.
Maintaining and operating additional lightingsystems, 0.1 mills.
Fire department, 1.1 mills.
Public nursing, 0.2 mills.
Cemetery, 0.1 mills.
Municipal band, 0.2 mills.
Sinking fund, 0.1 mills.
A new parking ordinance and otherwise regulatingmotor vehicle traffic in this city was adopted this morning, annulling theold motor vehicle ordinance. With reference to parking the ordinance providesfor the parking of cars between the white marks on the curb within specifiedlimits of the city at an angle of 45 degrees, and no cars to be parked within26 feet of a cross walk at street intersection.
Cars stopping parallel in the street mustnot be without driver left in the car. Driver must be 16 years of age orover. A car in approaching a street crossing must honk. The speed limitis not over 12 miles per hour nor under 8 [?? COULD NOT READ THIS...GREATLYOBSCURED] miles per hour. In cases of emergencies necesitating exceedingthe speed limit, cars must be continually honked.
A telephone lineman present asked for permissionto cut off limbs interfering with telephone lines, first getting the permissionof the property owner. A discussion followed which brought out the factthat there seems to be a misunderstanding prevalent among property ownerswith reference to trimming trees. The commissioners and city clerk, it appears,rerceive numerous inquiries from people who have the idea that they arenot permit ted to trim their trees from beneath. It was stated that thisis entirely erroneous and it is very much desired that property owners dotrim their trees.
An ordinance was adopted providing for reassessingthe costs of the sewer construction in district No. 5 in the north partof the city. The new ordinance annuls all the original work in this connectionand was made necessary by virtue of the facts that the costs for that partof the sewer outside of the city limits were assessed against the propertyowners of the city. The mayor was authorized to appoint a board of appraisersto reassess the cost according to the provisions of the law.
The matter of extending a sewer lateral broughtup at the meeting of the commissioners a week ago by H. H. Hamilton in behalfof Mrs. Graham came up again at the meeting today, Mrs. Graham being present.She objected to the commission's recommendation that a private sewer bebuilt, expressing her preference to stand for her part of the expense ofthe city extending a lateral to the property in question. The city engineerwas instructed to draw plans and specifications for a lateral. The propertyis located at 911 and 915 South Third street, where the sewage is beingtaken care of at present by a septic tank, which it is claimed is not inproper working order and a menace to health.
The mayor and clerk were instructed to advertisefor bids for the construction of a lateral sewer in District No. 5 fromLinden to Birch avenues, from A and B streets.
A resolution was adopted for the paving of twoalleys, one between Summit and First streets from Walnut to Chestnut avenuesand one between Summit and First streets from Adams to Jefferson avenues.
[AD: MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922]
Word from Bill Bunnell - Manitou, Colorado.- August 10, 1922.
Friend Sam:It is fine out here. The Durant caris a wonderful performer. They go up Pikes Peak every day. Lots of themout here. Yours truly, W. Bunnell.
Selling at $348 f.o.b. factory, the car sensationof the year will be here soon. Watch for the Star announcement.
[C. I. MONYHAN CHARGED WITH CARRYING CONCEALEDWEAPON.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
C. I. Monyhan was arrested Saturday eveningby Deputy Sheriff Fred Eaton on the charge of carrying concealed weapons,on a warrant from Judge Ham's court. The prisoner put up a $50 bond forappearance in court this morning at 10 o'clock.
According to the story, Monyhan and anothertraveling man took a swim in Paris Lake Saturday evening. After the dip,they went to the bath house and had just finished changing their clotheswhen three fellows came in on them and started a row. In the row, Monyhanpulled a revolver and threatened to shoot those committing the assault,compelling them to leave. Later the warrant was sworn out in Judge Ham'scourt for the arrest of Monyhan and was served by Deputy Sheriff Eaton.
According to the story of Monyhan, those whocommitted the assault upon him and his traveling friend, claimed they werestrike breakers, which he said was absolutely incorrect. Both are travelingmen. Monyhan is inspector for an advertising company. Monyhan was unableto appear at the trial this morning owing to the fact that his duties calledhim away. He went to Wellington last night.
[MOORE REFINERY NOTES]
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922
A. G. Brainerd, master mechanic at the MooreRefinery, returned to work today after a two weeks vacation camping andfishing along the White river in Arkansas. Some new furniture was installedin the office today. David Lane returned to work today after an absenceof several days. A. H. Hill, pump repair man, is making a $500 improvementin his residence, 526 South Tenth Street. Thirty-five cars of refined productswere being loaded out today, two of them being lubricating oil.
[TO SUBMIT RAILROAD STRIKE ISSUE TO CONGRESS.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Washington, Aug. 15.(A. P.)President Hardingwill place the rail strike situation before congress and before the countrywithin 48 hours, it was officially announced today at the white house.
The announcement came after the president hadconferred on the strike situation with his cabinet and with leaders in congressand after railroad union labor organizations had made public their rejectionof the president's last settlement proposal together with the statementthat chiefs of the non-striking unions planned to continue their effortsat mediation of the rail controversy.
The administration spokesman who made knownthe president's purpose declared there was no ground for the executive tostand upon in advancing any further proposition for settlement of the railstrike, other than those which have already been laid before the managementand representatives of the workmen now striking.
The impression prevailed among the president'sadvisers that he would in his statement to congress, and through congressto the country, make no suggestion as to legislation; but the administrationspokesman said that depended upon the events that occur within the brieftime before he speaks.
Washington, Aug. 15A. P.)President Harding,having abandoned all efforts at mediation of the rail strike, was declaredtoday by his advisers to have virtually decided to inform the railroad executivesof the country that in the operation of trains, they will be given the fullprotection and aid of the government. The president, it was stated, wasdetermined that the only course the government now could pursue was thepath it followed in the coal strike. THERE WAS MORE...I SKIPPED.
["MILLION DOLLAR" BABY FALLS ILLON TRAIN IN DESERT.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Los Angeles, Aug. 15.The birth of two babies,the serious illness of four other children, and two women were among thehardships endured by some 300 passengers who arrived here last night fromSeligman, Ariz., after four days under the torrid temperature which makesthat community one of the hottest in the southwest. Mrs. Clara Kerr of Cleveland;Mrs. Anna Hawn of Oklahoma; and Mrs. H. F. Booth of Wasco, Calif., wereamong the women ill.
Mrs. Alma Morris, whose address is not known,but who was coming to Los Angeles with her infant son, was said by otherpassengers to have found her money all spent as the result of extra expensescaused by the delay at Seligman. When she arrived here, a station attachepaged her and quietly presented to her a purse made up by fellow passengers.
One of the women passengers was Miss BlancheStraus of Kansas City, fiance of R. T. Rogers, employee of a telephone company."We will be married just as soon as we can find a preacher," saidMr. Rogers.
It developed today that one of the passengersarriving Sunday on a delayed Santa Fe train was the infant son of Evan BurrowsFontaine, dancer, who has begun suit against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney,at Saratoga Springs, New York, for damages of $1,000,000, alleging breachof promise of marriage, and that he is the father of her child. The childbecame ill because of the desert heat and the lack of water and proper food,according to its grand mother, Mrs. Florence Fontaine, who has it in charge.
The following is not a Cowley County article,but I found it very interesting....
[HEAT OF SUN SETS BOOZE ON FIRE AT CALEXICO,CALIFORNIA.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Calexico, Calif., Aug. 15.The government provedthe wisdom of "Poor Lo" in naming liquor "fire water"some centuries ago. One hundred gallons of liquor confiscated by federalcustoms officers was ordered emptied into the gutter in the usual way yesterday.The thermometer registered 120 in the shade, and when the liquor spatteredon the pavement, it burst into flames from the heat of the sun. The officersmoved to another location and started pouring some into the gutter. Again,it burst into flames, and the flames flashed up the stream of liquor andexploded one of the tanks. The officers then poured the fire water directinto the sewer. Dozens of spectators saw the first water fire.
[TRYING TO OPEN SANTA FE LINES.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Washington, Aug. 15.Heads of the brotherhoodsof railroad operating employees were declared today by Warren S. Stone,grand chief of the brotherhood of engineers, to be "endeavoring toget the Santa Fe line opened up."
[FRUIT GROWERS OFFER TO MOVE TRAINS TO SAVE$25,000,000 CROP.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Chicago, Aug. 15.(A. P.)Few developments havechanged the nation's grave railroad situation today. Efforts to settle theshopmen's strike and end sporadic walkouts by train crews bore little fruit.The country cheered by news of an apparent break of the coal strike gotlittle encouragement in the rail crisis.
Although little progress was made toward endingthe walkout of the "big four" transportation brotherhoods on theAtchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe, the strike of Union Pacific railmen wascalled off and four east bound trains left immediately for Chicago.
Santa Fe trains, stalled for several days atDesert towns in California, Arizona, and New Mexico were moved westward.Las Vegas, Nevada, remained isolated, due to the transporta- tion tieup.
An ultimatum to big four brotherhoods chiefsfrom A. G. Wells, vice president of the Santa Fe, intensified the situationon that road. Mr. Wells said if Santa Fe ttrain crews refused to returnto work, the roads only alternative would be to employ others to fill theplaces of strikers. His demands for explicit answers on the attitude ofbrotherhood officials brought a response from W. G. Lee, president of thebrotherhood of trainmen, that vice presidents of the union had been instructedto enforce working agreements with the railroad.
Fruit growers and shippers of north centralWashington announced their willingness to man trains for moving the $25,000,000fruit crop of the district.
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[BOLTING TRAINMEN SCORED BY LEADER AS ILLEGALSTEP.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Topeka, Aug. 15.President Lee of the Brotherhoodof Railway Trainmen, has notified trainmen strikers on the Santa Fe coastlines that "the company has a perfect right to protect its property,with armed guards if necessary," and that "a sympa-thetic strikewill not be tolerated," according to a bulletin posted this morningby W. K. Etter, general manager.
President Lee's telegram to brotherhood officerson the coast lines is incorporated in full in Mr. Etter's bulletin, andthe general manager adds a note that employees exercise utmost coolnessin the present crisis. The contention of the brotherhood men who struckon the coast lines was their opposition to armed guards. Similar actionby brotherhood men on the Western and Eastern grand divisions of the SantaFe is reported to have been under consideration.
Chicago, Aug. 15.Warren S. Stone, presidentof the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has notified branches of hisunion in the far west that unless the men who walked out on the Santa Fewithout authorization return to work immediately, their places will be filled,according to a statement made public today by A. G. Wells, vice presidentof the Santa Fe.
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[TOPEKA: STRIKERS DEFY OFFICIALS AT STATECAPITAL.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Topeka, Aug. 15.Striking shopmen in Topeka laiddown a declaration of war yesterday. It was their defiant answer to GovernorAllen to the effect that the lid is being tilted here in the campaign oflaw enforcement.
Members of the executive committee of the sixstriking shop crafts gave official defiance to the city and to all the state,county, and city peace officers in an official resolution adopted at a meetingtoday. The declaration is flat and square-toed. It tells Governor Allen,the industrial court, the officials of Shawnee County, Topeka city, andthe citizens of Topeka that it may be necessary to take the situation intheir own hands.
Here is the text of the strikers' resolution.
"Convicts, bootleggers, police characters,and undesirables are used a guards and strikebreakers. The Santa Fe railroaddominates law enforcement in the shop districts. It is a campaign of intimidationof the strikers. County Attorney Veale is not dilligent in his duty. Strikersare not treated fairly. There is a desire by guards to use their guns. Noticeis given that an alleged attempted assault will be used as a basis for determiningcharacters of men policing the shop districts. Further threats or acts againstthe strikers, their wives, or members of their families will result in actionas the occasion demands."
State, county, and city officials this afternoonwere asked for statements when the resolution was read to them by the StateJournal. Their answer was a declaration that there would be no let upin local law enforcement or in patrolling the shop areas.
The strikers' resolution is the boldest assertionthat discrimination is displayed in enforcement of law. Finally, and inmost positive terms, it is formal notice to the state and to the city thatunless there is a let up, the clash between the strikers and organized branchesof state government is coming.
Judge James A. McDermott, labor court judge,who read a section of the resolution, stated the following.
"You can say that there will be no lettingup in the policy and purpose of the state. If it is a bluff, we will callit. We expect to enforce the law in Topeka and in every town affected bythis strike. If there is a complaint against the character of men employedas guards, no information to that effect has ever been sent to this court.I can tell you right now we will not hesitate in our course to protect propertyand the rights of people."
Mayor Corwine was asked for a statement.
"I haven't received a copy of the resolutions,"he said, "but I haven't the least intention to change the city's policyin the shop district. I don't know a bit of criticism of the character ofmen employed by the city as officers, and we don't intend to make a bitof change in our program. We don't intend to discriminate between any classesof men in carrying out our policy."
Tinkham Veale, county attorney, said he wouldmake no change in his program, and asserted Shawnee County would not bebluffed.
"If they intend that resolution as a bluff,Shawnee County will call it. If that resolution intends to make one thingcertain, it is that we will make our campaign for law enforcement a bitmore strenuous and vigorous. Sheriff Miller is under bond. I know he hasn'tput a man in the district to patrol the shops who was not of the highestcharacter obtainable. We have given the strikers a square deal. But we haven'tgiven them a free rein and don't intend to. We are going to enforce thelaw."
Addressing their statements to the Citizensof Topeka and to peace officers of the state, county, and city, the strikingshopmen gave Topeka this message to ponder over at the dinner table lastnight.
"To the citizens of Topeka, state, county,and city peace officers.
"The executive committee of the six strikingshop crafts promised you in the beginning of this strike that we would useevery means in our power to keep down violence and maintain respect forlaw and order. That pledge has been faithfully kept. We have worked tirelesslyday and night, with the result that violence and disorder has been heldto a minimum despite the fact that more of our rights as citizens have beenentirely ignored by those in power, who took an oath that they would seejustice done and the law administered impartially. The conditions are suchthat we feel that we can no longer make that promise held good. After sixweeks of trying to cooperate with different officials, we are forced tobelieve, much against our will, that the different peace officers of city,county, and state are working for and under the direction of the A. T. &S. F. railroad, whose whole purpose seems to be the intimidation of thestrikers. The shop district is full of armed guards and strikebreakers,many who are ex-convicts, bootleggers, and police characters, who undernormal conditions, are a menace to society, but armed and clothed with theauthority of the law, are doubly so at this time.
"Some of these persons openly boast thatthey are carrying arms and are going to use them on strikers.
"These conditions are becoming intolerable;and the attempted crime on an eight year old child of one of the shopmenby one of these thugs, and the reluctant manner in which it was handledby County Attorney Veale, have convinced us that it is more than uselessto look for honest protection from the duly authorized peace officers.
"We know our lives, the honor of our wivesand daughters, and we therefore declare that should any more threats orattempts at violence be made against the strikers, their wives, and daughters,such action will be taken as the occasion demands. We further declare thatthe people who placed these thugs in a position of authority should andwill be held equally
responsible.
"We ask no special privileges and wantnone, but we do want the law applied to one and all alike, not as some corporationminion sees it, but as it is guaranteed every individual citizen, by theconstitution of these United States.
"Things have reached a shameful stage whenany one unit of society must take such a stand in self protection, and ifthe citizens of this town wish to keep the fair name of Topeka out of theindustrial mud, let them arise and demand that the direction of the forcesof the law be removed from the Santa Fe railroad and placed back where theybelong."
[MOORE REFINERY NOTES]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
Several men were taken on at the Moore refinerythis morning, bringing the number there up to 210. In addition, there areabout 50 men employed by the Universal Oil Products company in constructionwork on the new high pressure stills. The total number employed will probablyremain about the same, as large sections of the refinery have not yet beenstarted and all big refineries keep quite a force of men at constructionwork all the time. The daily payroll of the plant is in the neighborhoodof $1,250 and this figure just about represents the total population ofthe refinery family.
The foremen in charge of the remodeling workon battery three estimate the cost of that improvement all the way from$50,000 to $100,000. The pipe fittings which are being used there cost $10,000,it is said.
The work of building the new high pressure stillsat the Moore plant while progressing satisfactorily will take a long timeyet. It will probably be spring before this work is com pleted. CharlesTrude, foreman of labor, is directing considerable effort toward cuttingwoods and improving the lawns around the offices. L. E. Poley, freight trafficagent of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad, was a businessvisitor at the Moore plant today.
[OIL COUNTY COMPANY/SUIT INVOLVING MONEYAT ARKANSAS CITY]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
Winfield, Aug. 15.Suit involving more than $10,000in money now in an Arkansas City bank was brought in district court Monday,by the Oil County Company. The Home National Bank of Arkansas City, theMidland Supply Company, Chas. L. Hess, and Coleman H. Peters are made defendants.
The petition alleges that Chas. L. Hess wasformerly president of the Oil County Company and that as such, he enteredinto the contracts to drill wells in the name of his company, and receiveda check of $12,744.00 from the Kewanee Oil & Gas company. This check,it is alleged was taken to Arkansas City and deposited there, the sum of$2,000 being advanced while the check was being cashed on the bank at Titusville,Pa.
The Midland Supply Company now claims some interest,the petition sets forth, so it is made a defendant. Coleman H. Peters isalleged to have acted with Hess in making the deposit.
The plaintiff asks that the sum of $10,494 stillremaining in the Arkansas City bank be held in trust pending the hearingof the suit.
The sum of $2,250 is asked, similar circ*mstancesexisting, the petition affirms.
[HEART OF THE MOORE REFINERY]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
The main pump house, located in the centralpart of the Moore refining plant, is the heart of the refinery, accordingto the Traveler's information. It has twelve geared pumps, each havinga capacity of 500 barrels per hour. The pumpers can switch the stock toand from any part of the plant.
Besides, there are two smaller pump houses eastof the railway yards for the pumping of fuel and lubricating oils storedin the tanks there.
In addition, there are a vast number of pumpslocated at all the batteries, wax plant, lubricating plant, and boiler house.
[EDITORIAL RE COST OF TWO STRIKES.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
There is food for very serious thought in theofficial government estimates of the losses to the strikers, to the employers,and to the business of the country in the two nation-wide strikes now goingon.
More than half a billion dollars$533,000,000isthe portentous aggregate of these losses, divided as follows.
Railway workers and coal miners at an averageof $7,500,000 a day, have lost $193,000,000 in wages.
The coal operators have lost $240,000,000, estimating$1 a ton for bituminous coal that would have been mined during the sixteenweeks of the strike.
Total$433,000,000 for these two items.
The railroads are estimated to have lost theremaining $100,000,000 through curtained transportation facilities and otherexpenses.
There are 690,000 miners and 550,000 railroadworkers on strike, according to the estimate, an appalling total of 1,240,000idle men.
[EXPECT MINES TO BE OPENED BY TOMORROW.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 15.(A. P.)An agreementending the soft coal strike that has been in effect approved by operatorsand miners in a joint conference here at 3:10 p.m. today.
Signing of the agreement commenced immediately.
A wage scale was ready today for the signaturesof soft coal operators and miners, and prospects were that some mines wouldbe opened on Wednesday. Formal ratification was set for the afternoon, theconferees meeting at 2 p.m.
All details of the scale were approved in principleby both sides before the drafting of a tentative understanding, which wasdescribed today by both sides as the entering wedge in the soft coal strikethat began twenty weeks ago. Separate meetings of the miners and operatorswere held this morning for voting final approval.
"It is all a matter of procedure,"said President John L. Lewis, in referring to the delaying of actual ratification.
"The strike is now over," said JosephPursglove, an operator who served on the subcommittee.
In brief, the settlement provides that the minersshall be returned to work at the same scale of wages that were in effectwhen they went on strike; the new contract is to continue in force untilApril 1. The agreement also provides for appointment of an adviser factfinding commission, a part of its duties to consider future settlement ofdisputes in the coal industry.
The settlement came after a week spent in markingtime here by the operators and miners. Finally, the showdown on the issuecompulsory arbitration came resulting in three big operators withdrawingfrom the conference when President Lewis refused to accede to the demand.Then the conference reorganized and threw the doors open to all soft coaloperators. A quick agreement in principle followed with operators controllingproduction of sixty million tons annually committed to its adoption.
The operators in the meeting have Pennsylvania,Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. Orders went forward from these operatorshere today to their bosses back home to get ready to speed up coal production.Miners, too, were confident that an early resumption of work at scatteredmines would result in other operators hurrying their acceptance of the agreement.
[PERSONALS: GEO. LAREES/FRANK DENTON.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
Geo. Larees, proprietor of the New Home Restaurant,who went to Fort Sill with the Arkansas City Battery boys last week, hasbeen excused from duty there and is home to look after his business.
Frank Denton writes to his parents from GlacierNational Park, where he is spending the summer, that he is having a finetime and the weather is cool there.
[HOME NATIONAL BANK GROWING: 375 NEW SAFETYDEPOSIT BOXES]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
Three hundred and seventy-five additional safetydeposit boxes are being added at the Home National Bank, the installationconsisting of four heavy steel cabinets divided into compartments to makethe above number of boxes.
The installation is being made in the largevault on the north wall just opposite the original boxes on the south wall,and practically doubles the capacity of the vault in the matter of depositboxes.
The equipment had been ordered about five monthsago, from the York Safe and Lock Company of York, Pennsylvania. It is thoughtthe bank will be sufficiently equipped in this regard to take care of increasingbusiness for several years.
[T. TURNER AGAIN: PURITY SQUAD VISITS HISPLACE LAST NIGHT.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
The business alleged to be conducted by T. Turnerat 415 North E street suffered another little jolt last night, when threeofficers of the night force called at his place and confiscated severaljugs of choc beer as well as destroying fifteen gallons of the same fluidwhich was in the making. No arrests were made.
The officers have destroyed much choc beer foundin the vicinity of Turner's place within recent weeks, the beer being foundmostly on vacant premises adjoining Turner's residence, and so far it seemsthat the point blank evidence to convict has not been secured. But the policeare keeping close tab on the place, and evidently for several weeks backbut little of the manufactured liquor has reached the market.
While the contents of the keg were destroyed,the choc in the jugs was brought to the police station last night. The policesay that Turner wants the weeds cut in the vicinity of his premises, andassigns as the reason that they make too good a hiding place for the officers.
[VIRGIL LaSARGE FORFEITED $100 BOND.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
Virgil LaSarge, with three charges against him,failed to appear and his bond of $100 was forfeited. He was charged withdriving an automobile while drunk, carrying concealed weapons, and disturbingthe peace.
[CASE: HERBERT CORNEILSON ASSAULTING TONYLAREES SETTLED.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
The case of Herbert Corneilson charged withan attempted assault upon Tony Larees was settled out of court. Accordingto report Cornelison had some money coming to him from Larees, of the NewHome restaurant, and in order to secure himself in the payment of same,Cornelison gathered up an arm load of cutlery from the kitchen and startedto take it over to the office of a justice when Larees overtook him in thestreet, with the result that Corneilson was arrested and had the assaultcharge lodged against him. The parties, it seems, settled the matter satisfactorilybetween themselves.
QUESTION: CORNELISON OR CORNEILSON...KEEPSEEING THIS MAN
APPEAR IN ARTICLES...USUALLY SPELLED CORNELISON!
TRAVELER THIS TIME SPELLED IT BOTH WAYS INARTICLE.
[GROCERY CHANGES HANDS: WILLIAM JOHNSON BUYSRIGG STORE.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
Mr. and Mrs. James Rigg have sold their grocerystore, located on North D street, to William Johnson, who is now in chargeof the business there. Mr. Rigg is employed at the Midland Valley stationas cashier and he could not devote the necessary time to the store; therefore,he has disposed of the grocery business. Mr. Johnson is well known hereand has been in the same business before.
[ORCHESTRA TO DRURY PARK]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
The A. C. Symphony orchestra will go to DruryPark, 25 miles west of the city, to play a concert next Sunday afternoon,according to announcement made by George W. Jones, director. The park managementwill advertise the concert in surrounding territory, and a good-sized attendanceis expected including a goodly number of people from Wellington.
The orchestra will leave this city just afternoon and will return in the evening. As Director Jones expects to be ableto give orchestra concerts every Sunday in the near future, this will bea good advertisem*nt for both orchestra and the city.
[K. B. MILLS, KG&E EMPLOYEE, INJUREDWORKING ON CANAL BRIDGE.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
K. B. Mills, an employee of the Kansas Gas &Electric company, got a finger on his right hand badly mashed while workingon the Chestnut Avenue canal bridge, when the pile driver fell on it about11 o'clock this forenoon. He was taken to a local hospital where the attendingphysician found it necessary to remove part of the nail, in order to properlydress the finger. The patient will be laid up several days. He resides at518 South Sixth Street.
[WILLIAMS SIMMONS, NEGRO PORTER AT ROUNDHOUSE,RECEIVES CUT.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922
William Simmons, the old negro porter at theroundhouse, has his head in a bandage today as the result of being struckby H. A. Sprague, a worker in the roundhouse, cutting a gash near the negro'sright eye. The man inflicting the injury is reported to be a strike breaker.The affair occurred at about 9 o'clock this morning.
The negro porter is said to be one of the oldestmen in the employ of the Santa Fe at this point, having been on the jobfor 25 or 30 years. He is 70 or 75 years old. He is said to be a typicalsouthern negro, always attending to his own business, courteous and harmless.
Chief Dailey answered a call from the roundhouse,and went there to make investigation. As a result, he placed Sprague underarrest and brought him to the city jail.
"The fight grew out of an argument,"Chief Dailey stated, "and the injury inflicted is not very severe,cutting about an inch gash, which was dressed by the company's physician.The negro's assailant hit him with a club or monkey wrench."
Sprague received his discharge from the company'semploy. He was unable to give bond. His case will come up in the city courtthis evening.
[TROOPS GUARD SHOPS AT HORTON.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Topeka, Aug. 16.National guards cavalrymen fromHerington arrived in Horton early today in command of Adjutant General CharlesI. Martin. It is reported here the Rock Island shops there, which have beenpractically idle since the strike July 1, were opened today with a forceof 200, most of whom were sent in by the railroad company from other points.
Martial law has not been declared at Horton.The state troops will cooperate with local peace officers to preserve order.
Several attempts have been made by the railroadcompany to reopen the Horton shops; but each time upon arrival of workmen,they have been met by the strikers, who persuaded them to leave town. Fivestriking shopmen were arrested at Horton late yesterday by the sheriff ofBrown County, charged with forcing seven young men, who had been sent toHorton to act as guards of railroad property, into an automobile and takingthem to Hiawatha and compelling them to take a train. The technical chargeis violation of the industrial court act pertaining to picketing.
At Dodge City quiet prevails today, 100 deputysheriffs having been appointed there to handle the situation. This was donein keeping with a plan adopted at a public meeting, preferring it to sendingmilitia there. Captain Simons of the Peabody K. N. G. company was sent toDodge City to represent the state and assist the newly organized guard force.
Nine men have been arrested at Newton as a resultof the riotous scene last Saturday night. They are charged with violationof the industrial court act and the state mob law and with disturbance ofthe peace. Each put up $500 for appearance at the November term of court.Five men and a woman were arraigned in police court yesterday at Newton,charged with disturbance of the peace, the complainant, a Santa Fe shopemployee charging they called him "a scab." Last night six men,three of them striking shopmen, were arrested following the beating up ofa shop employee in a city park. He was rescued by a policeman.
At Wichita, one arrest was made today followinga disturbance at the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient shops, in which OrvalChalk, a shop worker, was severely beaten on the head and three other shopmenwere handled roughly by alleged striking shopmen.
Chalk, who was able to return to work today,swore to a warrant charging S. A. Fullgoat, a striker, with assaulting him.Fullgoat was arrested and held in default of $500 bond. He denied the charge.Chief of police W. A. Scott today issued instructions that extra precautionsbe taken to protect workers from violence. He stated warrants would be issuedunder the industrial court law for picketing, if strikers were found molestingthe workers.
At Parsons: General Chairmen of the "bigfour" on the Katy are in session this afternoon with C. N. Whitehead,chief operating official of the road, and military authorities relativeto better protection of trainmen in going to and from trains. The GeneralChairmen denied that a request would be made of Katy officials to withdrawthe armed guards in the Parsons yards. There has been no trouble in theParsons district because of the guards, but the trainmen have become restlessand are known to have asked their executives to have guards withdrawn. Thegeneral chairmen expect to go into detail relative to condition of Katyequipment in use here, which is said to be defective. The following GeneralChairmen will meet with the members of the "big four" tonightto hear their grievances: E. O. Laisure, firemen; E. O. Johnson, Denison,engineers; H. N. Reid, Sedalia, conductors; and Frank Nagle, San Antonio,Texas, trainmen. Mr. Laisure said the Katy big four members would not goout on an illegal strike.
[SANTA FE IS TIED UP WEST OF ALBUQUERQUE.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Albuquerque, N. M., Aug. 16.No trains had beenmoved west by the Santa Fe since last night because of the trouble at Gallup,New Mexico. Three transcontinental trains which arrived here last nightfrom Las Vegas are still being held here. Officials are hopeful that theGallup situation will be cleared up today as a representative of the nationalofficers of the Brotherhood of Trainmen is at Gallup today for a conferencewith the brotherhoods there.
[ALL UNION MEMBERS QUIT ON MISSOURI PACIFICAT VAN BUREN, ARK.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Van Buren, Ark., Aug. 16.A conference betweenMissouri Pacific officials and representatives of the firemen's union herethis morning having failed, all members of the union employed in the localyards quit work shortly before noon to protest disturbances which occurredin the yards last night. Another meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. this afternoonwhen efforts to adjust the situation will be renewed.
Union representatives announced that the menwould handle trains after they are taken to the depot, but will not workin the yards unless the guards are removed to a restricted area.
[MO. PAC DEPOT AT SILVERDALE BURNED BY SPARKOF ENGINE.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Fire, said to have been started from sparksfrom a Midland Valley freight engine, set fire to the Missouri Pacific stationat Silverdale late in the day yesterday and the building with its contents,including office fixtures, was destroyed, as there was no means at handfor extinguishing the flames.
The building was a frame structure of one storyand was an old land mark at Silverdale. For a number of years, the stationat that place has been used jointly by the Missouri Pacific and the MidlandValley lines, as the latter road uses the Missouri Pacific tracks from thiscity to Silverdale.
The loss to the company will be around $2,000,M. A. Spencer, local agent for the company stated today.
There will be a box car station installed thereat once, Mr. Spencer says, and today there was a crew of men sent out fromthis city, to place the car and put it in shape for the temporary station.The old station will be replaced by a new one, just as soon as the planscan be approved, it was stated today.
[ARKANSAS CITY: PLENTY OF MEN, BUT NOT POWERTO MOVE TRAINS.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
"We have plenty of men to handle the business,but not power to move the trains as they should be moved at this time,"said a local Santa Fe official today in reply to a question relative tothe condition in the yards.
Continuing, he said: "We have a lot ofextra business from nearly all the roads in Oklahoma at the present time,and on the Shawnee branch especially, all the main line tracks and the sidingsare full all the time. Passenger trains are compelled to take the sidingin many places every day; and in some cases, where all the trackage is full,we are compelled to 'see- saw' our way past the freights, in order to makethe time, and then the trains are all late every day."
The official stood at the passenger depot waitingfor the main line track to be cleared in order that passenger train No.17, due here at 7:45, which had been standing on the main line a mile northof the city for nearly an hour, could pull in. This train was reported hereon time, and would have been, had it not been for the fact that there weretwo long "drags" on the main track ahead of the passenger, andthe trainmen had been compelled to leave the freights, on account of the"Teddy Bear" law, or the 16 hour law, thus causing all trainsbehind them to be delayed.
Other men had to be called and rushed to theengines of the two freights so that they could be moved and this requiredthe biggest part of an hour.
A large number of passengers on train No. 17,and she was loaded to the guards, left the train and walked to the citycarrying their baggage, in order to get breakfast at the Harvey House. Butthe dining room was not opened until the train had pulled in, and all werepermitted to enter the dining room and the lunch counter at the same time.
Passenger train No. 406, from the south, pulledin about the same time, and there was a grand rush at the Harvey House forbreakfast. This made three passenger trains at the station at the same time;and then the tracks south of the depot and also in the south yards wereblocked with freight trains.
On account of the extra heavy business on theMiddle and Oklahoma divisions, the south yards have been blocked many timesrecently, one of the men stated, and it is with great difficulty that theyare cleared each day in order to make room for others, and so that the necessaryswitching may be carried on. The north bound passenger left the stationabout on time, but the main line to the south and the Shawnee train weredelayed in getting out on account of the blockade at the south yards.
One day very recently, one of the trainmen stated,there were over forty loaded freights turned over to the Santa Fe at Sparks,Oklahoma, which is only a passenger siding, by another road; and this causedquite a blockade there. The passenger trains in a case of this kind areforced to lay out for the freight business and must be held somewhere untilthe freights are moved.
When asked a question in regard to the delayof No. 17 this morning, after the train had pulled into the station, oneof the trainmen said, "Why, we have been in the country north of thecity for nearly an hour, behind these freights you see now."
Nearly all of the "old heads" nowon the Santa Fe here, are working overtime in order to try and keep up withthe business of the road and the officials, as well as the common laborers,are often seen at work on the platforms and about the trains. "At thisstage of the game, it is simply a case of go to it and assist in any waypossible, with the men who are still on the job," is the version ofone of the old timers here.
[THREE BOOTLEGGERS CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF DISPENSINGBOOZE.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
Winfield, Kan., Aug. 16.Playing a return engagementin booze selling cost the liberty of three camp followers of the racinggame Friday night when they were caught in the act of dispensing liquorto two young men of the country near Winfield.
Policemen George Nichols and W. C. Tucker, whowere lying in wait close to where the transaction was pulled off, made thearrest shortly before midnight. The men gave their names as Ed Hadley, ErnestHanley, and Walter Jackson. The arrest took place at the edge of the timberjust to the west of the carnival at the fair grounds.
Night before last the night policemen arrestedtwo young men, who had a quart of liquor in the car in which they were riding.The officers recognized them as the men who are not suspected of being inthe business, merely customers of the bootleggers. But the fact of liquorbeing in the car made the car liable to seizure as a booze car. With thisas a lever, the men after some argument, agreed to help the officers tothe arrest of the men from whom they had bought the liquor.
Last night the young men came in from the countryand got in touch with the police. The bootleggers were seen and arrangementsmade for a second purchase and sale. The bootleggers told the customersthat a quart could not be furnished, but that as much as they had left wouldbe brought to the place designated. When the whiskey was delivered as agreed,it was a little over a pint, which was all the bootleggers had at that time,they said. The officers were hiding close enough to see the transaction.The arrest was then made.
Hadley, it appears, is the financier of thetrio. He has in his possession a car from which he has been selling peaches.When the officers picked up the car last night, it was full of peaches,large, luscious Elbertas. This fact served to remind the police of the reportedrobbing of a peach orchard near Arkansas City the first of the week. Theorchard was that of E. B. Barnes, south of Arkansas City. In this orchardtrees estimated to have contained about twenty bushels of peaches were strippeda few nights ago. Hadley, it is said, came here from Oklahoma, which wouldhave brought him past the Barnes orchard.
The Arkansas City police have been informedof the peaches in Hadley's car so they can investigate. The prisoners probablywill be turned over to the county for prosecution.
[INSERT: PLACE UNDER "JUNIOR COLLEGE"FILE...ELECTON RESULTS!]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
The total vote cast at the primary electionin this city was 1,931, out of a registration of approximately 5,500, thecity clerk reports.
The proposition for the establishment of a juniorcollege course in this city, which was voted on at a special election yesterday,held at the same time as the primary, on account of curtailing the expenseof a special election on some other datge, carried by nearly five to one.The vote was 1,489 for the proposition and 320 against. The vote in thisconnection was larger than was really expected and there is no doubt thatthere was a bigger vote on the matter than there would have been, had theelection been held at a different time, and separately from the primary.The members of the board of education will now act accordingly and willlevy a tax to take care of the expense of the two years junior college coursefor the high school, and for which rooms and equipment will be providedin the new high school building, now almost completed.
[AD WITH PICTURE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922.]
This Ideal HomeBrick bungalow, 10 rooms andaeroplane, hardward floors throughout, two tile bath rooms, double garage.Laundry, storage, boiler and fuel rooms in basem*nt. Soft water, lot 100x 132. Corner Pine and A streetH. A. Prescott, owner.
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[UNION MAN MAKES WILD RIDE TO WICHITA FROMMUSKOGEE.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
Wichita, Kan., Aug. 16.A fast drive from Muskogeeto Wichita by H. C. Finch, representative of the Midland Valley trainmen,was necessary Tuesday as a result of press reports appearing in the morningpapers, stating a walk-out of trainmen on their road had been approved ata meeting of the brotherhood representatives in Muskogee Monday night.
The reports were branded false by Finch, whosped along the course of the railroad to Wichita instructing train crewsalong the way to remain at work. He gives as the sole purpose of the Mondaynight meeting, a discussion of plans for the removal of obnoxious guardson railroad property belonging to the Midland Valley.
It was decided at the meeting, he says, thatthe trainmen, conductors, firemen, and engineers organizations would takethe matter up with the management individually. He said a strike vote wasnot taken up.
Considerable trouble has arisen at Muskogee,Finch reports, over the alleged shooting of a youth by a railroad guardfor trivial reasons. Knowledge of this trouble and knowing the trainmenwere meeting, is thought to have caused some irresponsible party to circulatethe report of a proposed strike.
[P. E. HACKETT CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
Constable W. J. Gray went to Wichita this morning,armed with a warrant to bring P. E. Hackett to this city on the charge ofembezzlement. The alleged embezzler has been placed under arrest there,according to the officer. The man will be brought here and taken into thestate court of J. W. Martin, to answer to the charge, as the papers in thecase were issued by that official.
The complaint in the case was signed by D. C.Stapleton, manager of the Apex Electric Co., here and the amount of moneyinvolved as shown in the warrant is $613.50.
[MOORE REFINERY NOTES]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
Supt. Chas. Isaac of the Moore refinery devoteshis time largely to executive work. Asst. Supt. L. O. Beahm has charge ofall operations in the laboratory, refining department, treating plant, waxplant, lubricating plant, and loading department. He is one of the bestoil men in the country. His office is located in the laboratory building.Asst. Supt. P. W. Wilkins has charge of all mechanical work which includesconstruction, machine shops, boiler shop, pipe fitting, electric work, andlabor. His office is located in the main office building.
J. H. Tyberendt, formerly local agent for theMilliken interests, now acting manager for the Duluth and Oklahoma oil company,was a visitor at the Moore plant today.
Operations have been suspended for a few daysat the Earth retort building of the lubricating plant in order to make somerepairing on the furnaces there.
Another conductor tower was hoisted into placetoday on battery three. Placing these towers into position on top of thecondensor pans is quite an engineering accomplishment.
Two gin poles, constructed of 8-inch pipe, liftthe tower up over the top of the condensor pan, 25 feet. Another set ofgin poles standing on the condensor pan then pick up the tower and set itinto place. These towers are 35 feet high and 5 feet in diameter. When setinto place their tops are about 65 feet above the ground.
For each still there is one of these big towers,also a smaller tower about 25 feet high, and several smaller drums called"peanuts." These condensor towers are causing battery three tohave much of the resemblance of a pipe organ. Refinery men say the purposeof these towers is to separate the different grades of stock as it comesfrom the stills.
Another still on battery three was put intooperation today, bringing the daily run of crude up to 7,000 barrels. Threestills are in operation on this battery and five more remain to be started.A fourth still will be ready inside of a week, but it will be several weeksbefore the four stills on the south section of battery three can be startedbecause of the big amount of remodeling work to be done there.
[DISCUSSION OVER FIREARMS: SPECIAL DEPUTIES,RAILROADS.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
County officials have taken up the matter ofthe special guards for the railroads here carrying their revolvers whileoff duty and when not on the railroad right-of-way. The discussion arosehere on account of the arrest of one of the special deputies last nightby the police, who did not name the man; and following the arrest, the specialofficer produced his certificate of appointment and was therefore releasedwithout being fined. It was reported this afternoon that there probablywould be a change in the ruling in this connection, but county officershad nothing to give out in this regard, late in the day.
[WILLIAM BUNNELL IN PARTY...MR. AND MRS.ARTHUR LaSARGE.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
Word was received from William Bunnell and party,who are in Colorado on a pleasure trip. Everything was reported fine withthe exception that Mrs. Bunnell is suffering from hay fever. The party consistsof Mr. and Mrs. Bunnell, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur LaSarge, and Mr. and Mrs. OwenCooper.
[NOTE: VIRGIL GOT IN TROUBLE WHILE THEY WEREGONE!]
[CLUE TO CHAS. SCOTT: FARRAR SAYS HE IS ALIVE.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
Word has been received in the city by Foss Farrar,of the Home National Bank, that Chas. Scott, who has been missing for abouttwo years and for whom there has been a search instituted by the state bankcommissoner's men who are in charge of the affairs of the defunct Traders'State Bank here, that Scott is alive and is residing at or near Muskogee,Oklahoma.
Scott is wanted here for the reason that hehad a deposit of some $7,000 in the bank when it was closed on March 15last, in order that he may make claim to his account before it is too lateand before the bank's affairs have been liquidated. Scott was at one timea night clerk at the Windsor Hotel here and it has been said for some timethat he disappeared from the city under rather peculiar circ*mstances. E.H. Armstrong, now in charge of the Traders Bank affairs here, has been endeavoringfor several weeks to locate Scott by writing to a number of places wherethe man was said to have been in the past several months; but so far, hehas received no direct answers to these letters. He will now follow up thisclue and hopes soon to locate the man and have him come here and sign upfor his deposit in the defunct bank, so that he can get his certificateand thus clear the account.
[SANTA FE "STRIKEBREAKER" FINED$25 FOR STRIKING NEGRO PORTER.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
H. A. Sprague, an employee in the Santa Fe shops,was up in the city court last evening on a charge of assaulting WilliamSimmons, the old negro porter at the roundhouse.
The affair grew over an altercation over a waterkeg, which resulted in Sprague calling the negro some bad names. "Don'tcall me that," the negro said, whereupon Sprague repeated more badnames and followed up by hitting the negro with a flag stick, cutting agash above the negro's eye, according to the testimony at the trial.
Sprague was immediately discharged from theservices of the company. He evidently was in a bad temper, testifying thathe came from Springfield, Mo. "The company lied to me," he said."I didn't know I was coming to take a strikebreaker's job."
The court fined him $25. He only had $8 or $10in money. The court allowed him enough to pay his fare to Springfield andapplied the balance on the fine.
The court shamed him, a swarthy man, for makingan attack with a weapon on a helpless old man.
[LOLA LEMMERT DOUBLE PARKS; GETS $2 FINE.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
The court was graced last evening by the presenceof Lola Lemmert. She had double parked, just as she had done many timesbefore, it was stated. This occurred before she had read in the Travelerabout the new parking regulations and the declaration that henceforth andforever the law was going to collect a small fine from wrong parkers. Thelady contributed $2 for the general welfare.
[E. C. COLLINS/ RAILROAD GUARD/CHARGED.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
A charge of carrying concealed weapons was enteredon the police record this morning against E. E. Collins, but the entry wascancelled. Collins dug up a little document which showed that he had beendeputized as a guard.
[BOY SCOUTS.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
Frank M. Sawyer, deputy regional scout executive,of Kansas City, who has been in the city to organize the Boy Scouts of CowleyCounty on a new basis, went to Hutchinson last evening to take up similarwork.
Troop 1 will meet at the log cabin in ParisPark tomorrow evening. The boys are to be assigned to patrols, and all arerequested to come to the meeting.
QUESTIONS: LOG CABIN IN PARIS PARK?
DO THEY MEAN A LOG CABIN IN SOUTH END OFA. C.???
[G. E. NEWFIELD AND WIFE RETURN FROM CAMPING/PLEASURETRIP.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
G. E. Newfield and wife returned to this citytoday after an absence of two and a half months on a camping and pleasuretrip. They went to the western Oklahoma and Texas line and traveled throughOklahoma, Arkansas, Misssouri, and eastern Kansas.
They traveled in a Ford touring car, in whicha sleeping compartment was improved by putting hinges on the back of thefront seat. A wagon sheet was arranged for use as a kitchen. They spentthe time on the road, camping, boat riding, and fishing, and in the Ozarkmountains rode burros.
"Arkansas City has the reputation of havingthe best tourist park there is going," said Mr. Newfield, who had comein contact with 25 or 30 campers who had used the tourist park at this place.He said Wichita had the reputation of having the worst camping grounds.
During Mr. Newfield's absence, his jewelry storeat 101 North Summit was in charge of his two brothers, John and H. E. Thelatter expects to remain here, while John contemplates going in businessfor himself elsewhere, in the near future.
[LUTHER PARMAN/H. A. DERRY TO SWAP BUILDINGS.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
Luther Parman, the furniture dealer, will moveinto the building now occupied by the Derry Bakery about September 1st;and H. A. Derry will move into the building now occupied by Mr. Parman.The latter will improve his building and make some changes before movinghis furniture stock into it, however, it has been announced.
[MOORE REFINERY NOTES]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
Forty-seven cars of refined products are beingloaded today at the Moore refinery. Three of them are lubricating oil.
Bill Cripes, who has been in charge of the boilerwork on battery three at the Moore refinery, returned to the Cosden companyplant at Tulsa today. From now on Lon Tennis, chief boiler maker of theplant, will have charge of all boiler work.
George N. Moore, president, and J. Purcell,secretary-treasurer of the Moore refining company, arrived from Chicagothis morning for a several days' visit at the plant.
The Moore plant is completely equipped withmachinery for generating its own electric current, but it is not used onaccount of insufficient boiler capacity to operate it. The ten 150-horsepowerboilers in the power plant are taxed to their capacity to furnish steamfor the operation of the refinery. Current is supplied by the Kansas Gas& Electric company.
A big gang is now at work hauling sand and gravelfor the new high pressure stills.
[W. A. DAVIS PURCHASES HOLT COFFEE ESTABLISHMENT.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922
W. A. Davis, who has been connected with theDodge City Wholesale Grocery company for several years, was in the citytoday concluding the purchase of the Holt Coffee establishment. Mr. Davisis one of the best young businessmen of Dodge City, and will come to ArkansasCity very highly recommended. Mr. Davis expects to assume the proprietorshipof the Holt Coffee establishment September 1st. In the meantime, he is lookingfor a house in which to live, so that he can bring his family here and becomeone of us.
[THREE KILLED IN STRIKE RIOTS/PLOT TO WRECKTRAIN DISCOVERED]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Chicago, Aug. 17.(A. P.)An end of the strikeof "big four" transportation brotherhoods on western roads, andimproved outlook for peace in the New York conference today, shootings,bombing, and burning were highlights in the nation's railway crisis duringthe last 24 hours.
Blockades and tieups on the Atchison, Topekaand Santa Fe; the Union Pacific; Western Pacific; and Southern Pacific clearedup when striking ttrain crews called off their walkout and opened the wayto immediate restoration of traffic on lines which were paralyzed by thestrike of the big four brotherhood.
Stranded Santa Fe trains were moved out of Albuquerque,
N. M., and trainmen at Prescott, Ariz., notifiedthe Santa Fe officials that strikers would return to work. These moved followedearlier developments towards ending the tieup on the Santa Fe.
The Union Pacific's traffic knot unraveled rapidlyafter trainmen on the Las Vegas division called off their strike. Otherwestern roads restored transportation activities which had been in effectsince the shopmen's strike began July 1.
Agreements looking toward an end to the trainmen'sstrike on the Cumberland Valley division of the Louisville and Nashvillewere announced at Corbin, Ky.
With the train service strike breaking up inother sections of the country, trainmen who interrupted traffic on the MissouriPacific at Van Buren, Ark., refused to return to work while guards remainedon duty in the yards. Only trains which were made up and delivered to crewsoutside the railroad yards were moved.
Bombs were thrown at a Santa Fe train, whichleft San Bernardino for the first time in six days. One bomb exploded inthe yards and two more were hurled at the passenger train as the enginewheels spun over the oiled rails in pulling out of the city.
George Stambaugh, a brakeman on the Great Northern,was shot and killed at Havre, Montana, by a railroad guard.
William Craft, a blacksmith's helper employedby the Denver & Rio Grande since the shopmen's strike, suffered a brokenleg and other injuries when he was attacked on the streets of Pueblo, Colorado.
Mrs. Nels Hansen, wife of a Santa Fe shop foremanat San Bernardino, was shot and killed in her home. Police took up the trailof two men, who are said to have attacked her.
James Lewis, striking Pennsylvania road machinist,was shot to death by Charles Parsons, a wealthy real estate man, followinga dispute over the strike. Lewis accused Parsons of "listening overthe shoulders" of strikers when they gathered to discuss the strike.
Troops remained on guard in virtually all placeswhere soldiers were sent to quell riots earlier in the strike. Some in Kansasand Illinois.
Local authorities asked for troops at Spencer,N. C., where shopmen were routed by strike sympathizers.
Major Stiles, in command of troops at Clinton,Ill., recommended martial law following renewed disturbances in which severalmen were injured.
Outbreaks were reported from Cedar Rapids, Iowa,Superior and Janesville, Wis., Birmingham, Mobile, and Albany, Alabama,and Scranton, Pa.
An attempt was made to blow up the tracks ofthe Louisville and Nashville at Birmingham and a plot to wreck a train onthe same road at Mobile was discovered, while the home of an L. and N. employeewas attacked with bullets and bombs.
THERE WAS MORE...I SKIPPED.
[ARKANSAS CITY: TWO MEN ATTACKED NEAR CARNIVALGROUNDS]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Two brothers, by the name of Moon, were badlybeaten up last night, said to have been attacked by a part of six or eightunknown men while they were coming from the carnival grounds. The olderone of the brothers had a bad gash cut over and around the right eye andextending down on the cheek, according to the local physician who dressedthe wounds of the victims. The doctor reported that they had received aterrible beating.
According to information available today, theaffair grew out of the present strike situation. Chief Dailey had not seenthe night officers and said that all he could find out about the matterwas the story that the two boys told to the night police at the stationand as related by P. E. Hackett of the Apex Electrical company, who saidhe was present when the two boys came in and heard their statements aboutthe affair.
According to Mr. Hackett the younger of thetwo boys represented that he had come to this city from Beaumont, Kansas,in answer to an advertisem*nt by the railroad company for men to work inthe shops. The older brother, they represented had been at Emporia, andhis mother had written him about the younger brother coming to ArkansasCity to work in the shops here, and the older brother then came to thiscity from Emporia and induced the younger brother to quit his job. Mr. Hackettsaid both boys claimed they did not know by whom they were attacked andthat it was so dark they could not identify any of them, but they believedit to have been the act of men now employed in the shops on the presumptionthey were enraged because the older brother had induced the younger brotherto quit work.
Reports from other sources do not bear out thisbelief, although there has been nothing forthcoming to indicate just whodid make the attack or which side of the railroad controversy they wereon. Chief Dailey went to union headquarters this morning and reported theunion officials disclaimed any knowledge in the matter but so far as theirknowledge extended the strikers had nothing whatever to do with the affair.
An indication that both men may have been attackedas "scabs" is furnished by the statement of Wm. Burton of theCollinson Hardware Co., who resides at 1037 North Summit Street. "Atabout 9 o'clock last night, I heard scrambling on the front porch of myresidence. I went to see what the trouble was and found several men lyingon the porch and one man standing on the steps. I saw them knock one fellowdown. Then they got another fellow down and seemed to be beating both menup. Finally the two fellows got up and started to run, and as they did so,one of them asked for his cap. One of the attacking party cursed him andcalled him a 'damned scab.' They then ran across the street to Frank Wanner'splace." Mr. Wanner reported the police were called and that officersCharles and Ballew answered the call and took the two young men to the station.After putting together all the evidence so far secured in the matter, thepolice are still in the dark as to who composed the attacking party, andno arrests have been made.
There was a report in circulation this morningthat one of the strikebreakers was assaulted by someone inside at the SantaFe yards last night, but the company officials claimed to know nothing aboutsuch a case. The matter was reported to the labor headquarters this morning,but the men there did not claim to know the particulars of the alleged assault,nor the name of the victim.
[MIDLAND VALLEY: MOTOR CAR JUMPS RAILS; ONEMAN KILLED.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
One man was killed and five others badly injuredon the Midland Valley late in the day yesterday when the motor car on whichthey were speeding toward their home at Hardy, Okla., jumped the track andditched the entire party. Four of the men, all of whom are employed as sectionhands on the railway, were rushed to this city and were at once admittedto Mercy hospital, where they were attended by the company physician, whor*sides here.
One of the men of the party, Sam Penley, suffereda concussion of the brain and the attending physician stated as soon ashe saw him that he could not recover. Penley was 52 years of age and hewas in the employ of the company as a common laborer. He was a single man.He passed away at the hospital at 10:45 this morning and the body was takento the Parman-Powell parlors.
Other members of the party who were broughthere are: Noah Palme, foreman, one wrist broken and face and hands badlycut; Will Kennard, bruises and many scratches, will be laid up for at leasta week; C. H. Wentworth, right leg injured and bruised severely all overthe body. It was stated by those who claim to know something about the accidentthat one of the men was thrown forty feet from the track when the motorcar left the rails and turned over. The others were simply piled up alongthe track and two of them were pinned beneath the car.
The two men of the party who were the leastinjured and who were taken to their homes at Hardy, were Steve Rozelle andC. W. Clayton, who was one of the foremen. Dr. J. H. Douglass of this citywent to the scene of the wreck and gave the men emergency treatment andthen the four were carried to the hospital in the Parman-Powell ambulanceand the vehicle made two trips to the scene of the wreck in order to getthe men to the city.
All of the men reside at Hardy and they wereon the return trip to Hardy when the car ran off the track and injured them.The accident occurred just this side of the Oklahoma line, and south ofSilverdale.
Frank Graham, roadmaster for the Midland Valley,who resides at Pawhuska, came to the city this morning to look after theinjured men for the company and made the official report to the officialsin regard to the accident.
Late today there had been no disposition madeof the body of Mr. Penley, and it will be held here until some of his relativescan be located, it was stated this afternoon.
[EDITORIAL: ABOUT MRS. SARAH B. SHEPARD.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922
Mrs. Sarah B. Shepard, who resided in ArkansasCity for many years, but now lives at 625 North Electric avenue, Alhambra,California, has been a constant reader of the Traveler for almostfifty years. Yesterday her nephew, Ralph Dixon, called at the office andpaid her subscription to July 28, 1923, making fifty years she has paidfor the Traveler.
Mrs. Shepard and her husband moved to ArkansasCity in June, 1873. On July 28, 1873, she enrolled her name upon the subscriptionlist for the paper, which at that time was a weekly, and C. M. Scott wasits editor.
The Traveler delivers in the city between1800 and 1900 papers out of 2850 papers it prints daily.
[AD: THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922.]
We are going to move about August 26th toour own building, 109 South Summit Street, where Derry's Bakery is now located.
[LORAH A. TUFTS, SISTER OF DR. EDWIN A TUFTS,STOPPED IN DESERT.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922
One Arkansas City resident was detained in theArizona desert on account of the train being stopped following the strikeof the trainmen at Needles, California. This was Miss Lorah A. Tufts, sisterof Dr. Edwin A. Tufts, who was en route to Los Angeles in company with C.Albert Tufts, the famous organist, of Los Angeles.
The latter was on his way home from Chicago,where he had been attending a convention of organists, and stopped off hereto visit his brother and sister and also his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.D. Tufts. He gave an organ recital in the Presbyterian church for the benefitof his Arkansas City friends on Tuesday, August 8, and he and Miss Lorahleft the following day for Los Angeles. Miss Lorah conducts a violin schoolthere.
Their train was stopped at Seligman, Arizona,one hundred miles west of Williams, and they were held there four days,arriving in Los Angeles yesterday, according to word received by Dr. Tufts.
So far as heard from, they were the only ArkansasCity people caught in the stoppage of Santa Fe train service by which hundredsof passengers were given an involuntary opportunity to breathe the desertair.
[MOORE REFINERY NOTES]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922
M. B. Cohn, sales manager of the American OilCorporation of Kansas City, Mo., was a visitor at the Moore plant today.
There is a dining room under battery 1 condensorat the Moore plant where the men assemble to eat their luncheon. There areeight places at the plant where shower baths and lockers have been installedfor the convenience of the men.
Another big condensor tower was hoisted intoplace today on battery three at the Moore refinery. These towers are 35feet high and six feet in diameter, and when in position, reach a heightof 75 feet above the ground.
Twenty-four cars of refined products are beingloaded today. Two of them are lubricating oil.
When the officials leave the plant in the evening,everything is in charge of the night superintendent. He acts as generalforeman to see that all given orders are carried out. Should an emergencyarise, he may call the proper official of the company. The present nightsuperintendent is Harry Smith.
About half the employees of the plant ride towork in autos.
Three cars of construction material arrivedtoday for the new high pressure stills. The Comley lumber company also delivereda big load of building material for this work.
Tom Maroney of the Mid Co pipe line companywas a visitor at the Moore refinery today.
[CREAMERY CHANGES HANDS.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922
Messrs. Paul Harris, Dewey King, Walter Ziegler,and Homer Coble, of Ponca City, have purchased the A. C. Dairy establishmenton East Spruce avenue and are moving it to South Summit street. They expectto begin business in about two weeks and the new establishment will be calledthe O. K. Creamery. It will be under entirely new management and they statethat they will make Arkansas City a better market for cream than it hasever been before.
[INSTRUCTORS FOR SENIOR AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922
Instructors for the coming fall and winter termof school in the senior and junior high schools have been appointed andthey are all expected to be on hand at the opening day, Monday, September11.
The teaching staff for the Junior High School.
Olive Ramage, teacher of citizenship.
Mary Hume, English.
Pearl Lock, English.
Natella Darby, Spanish and English.
Euola Metler, English and Gramatics [?].
Lora Ward, Mathematics.
Elta B. Fretz, Mathematics and English.
Estelle Ireton, History.
Ida Holt, History.
Dorothy Cane, Science.
Willeta Dickson, Geography.
Ruth Moore, Sewing.
L. A. Chaplin, Wood work.
Chas. S. Huey, Manual training.
Lloyd Hakes, Printing.
H. C. Leet, Mechanical drawing.
Helen Neiman, Sewing.
Florence Harrison, Cooking.
Elma Stewart, Cooking.
Mary J. Skidmore, Latin.
Lurine Skidmore, Mathematics.
Marie Pe____, Mathematics. [CANNOT READ LASTNAME.]
Edith J. Davis, Girls Physical Training.
Mason Wyme, Boys Physical Training.
Lille Anderson, Music.
Gladys Cusac, Secretary.
E. A. Funk, Principal.
[As yet there are no teachers for penmanshipand art, and study hall and library.]
The following are the teachers for the seniorhigh school.
Edna Warnick, English and Public Speaking.
Florence Waddell, English.
Pauline Sleeth, English.
F. H. Tooney, American History, economics anddebate.
Edna Gustafson, Physiology and history.
Gaye Iden, Chemistry and Physics.
Ernest Uhrlaub, Biology and coach of all athletics.
Euphhastr [?] Kirk, Spanish.
Wm. McCort, Mathematics.
Phoebe Machin, Mathematics and normal training.
Francis Davidson, Librarian.
A. E. Kountz, Commerce.
Kathryn B. Fitch, Typewriting.
Mary J. Skidmore, Latin.
Chas. S. Huey, Manual training.
H. G. Leet, Mechanical drawing.
M. R. Sheff, Vocational agriculture.
Faye Orelof, Home economics.
Howard Feldmann, Music supervisor.
Esther Reynolds, Secretary.
J. F. Gilliland, Principal.
C. E. St. John, Superintendent.
[J. C. WILSON CAPTURED AT CARNIVAL GROUNDSWITH EIGHT PINTS.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922
Four hundred dollars cash bond was placed inthe hands of Judge W. T. Ham this morning by J. C. Wilson, was was arrestedat the carnival grounds in the north part of the city last night on thecharge of having whiskey in his possession. And the four hundred was inlawful U. S. currency and was counted out to the court in tens, fives, andones, but later one of the attorneys for the defendant excahnged three 100dollar bills for that amount of the smaller ones.
Wilson was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Fred A.Eaton last night in one of the tents at the carnival grounds with eightpint bottles of alleged whiskey in his possession. When nabbed by the officers,Wilson did not deny the charge and he made the statement that he had justpurchased it for his own use. The defendant demanded a jury trial when takeninto court this morning and the case was set down for trial on Tuesday,August 22. H. S. Hines and W. L. Cunningham represented the man at the hearingthis morning and Deputy County Attorney Quier was in charge for the state.
The man was captured by Officer Eaton afterthat officer had been given a "tip" and upon watching a man onthe grounds who was carrying a grip. The man with the grip suddenly disappearedinto one of the tents and the officer was "Johnnie on the spot"and also went inside the tent. There he was fortunate enough to catch Wilsonwith the goods, and just after the wet goods had changed hands, it is presumed.Wilson was said by the officers to be in charge of the eating house on thecarnival grounds.
[MRS. W. W. RINEHART RECALLS FORTY YEARSAGO.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922
Mrs. W. W. Rinehart recalls that she had beenin Kansas 40 years today. When she landed in this city, she ate dinner atthe old Leland hotel, located where the Traders State Bank now stands. Shecame here from southern Illinois. She says there were 600 people in thecity at that time and there was a corn field where the 500 block on SouthSummit Street is now.
[P. E. HACKETT: ARRESTED IN WICHITA ON EMBEZZLEMENTCHARGE.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922
P. E. Hackett, who was brought from Wichitayesterday by Constable Billy Gray, is being held on a charge of embezzlementsworn out by the Apex Electrical company, Mr. Hackett having been the agentof the company at this place. He is charged with having embezzled the sumof $613.50. Attorney W. L. Cunningham has been employed to represent thedefendant.
The defendant has been trying to arrange a bondtoday, but owing to the fact that all the banks are closed on Thursday afternoon,it was thought he would not be able to make the bond today. According toinformation from the deputy county attorney's office, the bond will probablybe fixed at $1,200, and the case set for preliminary hearing about the middleof next week.
[PRESIDENT APPEALS TO CONGRESS.]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Washington, Aug. 18.President Harding in anaddress to congress today on the industrial situation declared that theright of employees and employers alike to conduct their business must berecognized and he also deplored what he termed "warfare on the unionsof labor."
The president declared a national investigationfor constructive recommendatins as to the conduct of the coal industry tobe imperative and recommended a government commission to advise as to fairwages and conditions.
Immediate legislation to establish temporarilya "national coal agency" with necessary capital to purchase, sell,and distribute coal also was urged by the executive.
Stating that the Esch-Cummins act in establishingthe railroad labor board was inadequate, being with little or no power toenforce its decisions, the president recommended action to make the board'sdecisions "enforceable and effective against carriers and employeesalike."
Other legislative recommendations were for "betterprotection of aliens and enforcement of their treaty rights," a measureto give federal courts jurisdiction in protecting aliens.
Other than the amendment to the Esch-Cumminslaw to make the railroad board's decision enforceable, the president didnot recommend any legislation to deal immediately with the railroad strike.
Stating that sympathetic railroad strikes haddeveloped and impaired interstate commerce seriously, the president saidthat trains deserted in the western desert had "revealed cruelty andcontempt for law on the part of some railway employees, who have conspiredto paralyze transportation."
Asserting that the striking unions in some instanceshad not held their force to law observances, Mr. Harding said, "Thereis a state of lawlessness shocking to every conception of American law andorder," and announced his intention to invoke laws, civil and criminal,forbidding conspiracies hindering interstate commerce and requiring safetyfor the right of men to work.
ARTICLE GOES ON AND ON...BOTH ABOUT COAL ANDRAILROADS.
[RAILROADS/MEN NOT ABLE TO AGREE UPON PLANFOR RAIL PEACE.]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
New York, Aug. 18.Belief that no definite agreementfor settlement of the shopmen's strike would be reached today was expressedby Warren S. Stone, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers shortlybefore 1 p.m. on leaving the conference between brotherhood men and executives.
After having attended the session for two hours,Mr. Stone left for the uptown hotel where shopcrafts leaders are quarteredfor a conference. He said he did not expect to return before 3 p.m. Mr.Stone said no definite agreement had been reached so far and he believedthe conference would have to be extended beyond today. The labor leaderprofessed himself still optimistic about the outcome. Mr. Stone explainedthat whatever plan was presented would have to be referred by both sidesto their constituents. The other four railroad leaders serving on the mediationcommittee of the brotherhood followed Mr. Stone out of the meeting and hurriedto the hotel.
New York, Aug. 18.(Associated Press)Brotherhoodchiefs, acting as mediators in the shopmen's strike, today laid a proposalto resettlement before a committee representing the carriers. It then wasdecided to call a meeting of the entire membership of the association ofrailway executives at a date as yet not set to consider the proposal. Thiswas learned when the conference between representatives of the running tradesand the executives broke up shortly before 5 p.m. after having been in sessionfor two days.
[TWO ARRESTS UNDER INDUSTRY LAW/HORTON ANDNEWTON.]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Newton, Kan., Aug. 18.Late developments in therail strike situation here include the arrest of Claude Linnens, an officerof the federated shop crafts, charged with posting a notice calling thestrike on July 1. Linnens was arrested on complaint of Randall C. Harveyof the Attorney General's office and placed under $1,000 bond for his appearanceat the November term of district court. The charge is based on an allegedviolation of the industrial court law and constitutes a felony. Linnensis a son of G. M. Linnens, Newton justice of the peace. He was arraignedbefore Justice J. R. Frizzell.
The bonds of all those for whom warrants havebeen issued for arrest in connection with the recent riotous disorders hereand who have not appeared to arrange bond have been increased from $500to $1,000. Thus far but one man has failed to furnish bond when arrested.Robert Bond was placed in jail yesterday in default. He is not a striker.
Rumors of picketing are being investigated bylocal officers and Captain Arthur E. Ericson in command of the troops stationedhere, but no further arrests have been made. In all twelve warrants havebeen served.
Pratt, Kan., Aug. 18.A warrant charging ThomasP. Hylton, of Horton, general chairman of the brotherhood of railway carmenof the Rock Island system, with violation of the Kansas industrial courtlaw will be issued today upon instructions of the court, County AttorneyD. E. McCroy announced. The warrant follows publication in a Pratt paperof excerpts from a speech made by Hylton here last week in which, it isalleged, he scathingly arraigned the court for its activities in the strike.
[BATTERY F BOYS HOME FROM FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA.]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922
The officers and men of the Arkansas City BatteryF, K. N. C., returned home this morning over the Santa Fe from Fort Sill,Oklahoma, where they have been in training for the past ten days. They reporta hot time there and say they were given some strenuous work. This was thefirst opportunity that the A. C. men have had to get away from home, andthey enjoyed the trip and the work as well, although there was not muchplay connected with the outing.
Capt. W. B. Oliverson and the members of thecompany were busy this afternoon at the battery headquarters on South Firststreet unpacking and rearranging the material which they took with themto the instruction camp. Most of the men of the battery will resume theirregular duties in various business houses of the city tomorrow.
[MOORE REFINERY NOTES]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922
Twenty-five cars of refined products are beingloaded out at the Moore plant, including four cars of lubricating oil.
L. E. Winkler, chief engineer of the UniversalOil Products company, went to Wichita today to purchase some machinery.This company is building the new pressure stills at the plant.
Lumber is on the ground for enlarging the officeroom in the warehouse at the Moore refinery.
The pipe line department occupies two roomsin the main office building. One room is occupied by the pipe line superintendent,J. C. Lytle, C. W. Barth, field superintendent, and
L. M. McMahon, office clerk. The other roomis occupied by the gauging department. O. E. Smith and C. F. Spruill arecrude gaugers. Telephone service extends to all parts of the plant.
The pipe line department of the
________________ [MISSING LINE, I THINK] receivedfrom the Burbank, Tonkawa, and Billings fields, and is stored in big tanksat the northwest corner of the refinery grounds.
[COULD THEY BE TALKING ABOUT OIL THROUGH THEPIPE LINES?]
Lon Tennis resigned today as chief boiler maker.
Guy Thurman, who was badly scalded at the planton July 23 by the bursting of a steam line, is reported to be doing as wellas could be expected. He still has to make occasional trips to the hospitalfor treatment.
Robert Maynard, who was burned several daysago at the plant by the ignition of a carbide gas line is improved to suchan extent that he has had the bandages removed from his face and arms.
The Frisco railroad does the switching for theMoore refinery, an additional switch engine and crew being put on for thispurpose when the refinery was first opened. The Santa Fe and Missouri Pacificswitch engines also come into the plant.
Three cars of operating material were receivedtoday.
The casinghead plant at the Moore refinery isnot yet in operation. The purpose of this plant is to collect gases fromthe stills and tanks; and by a process of compression, reduce these gasesto gasoline. Three men are usually employed here.
[STATE ENGINEER VISITS HERE; INVESTIGATESFLOOD CONDITIONS.]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922
H. B. Walker of Manhattan, member of the statewater commission, was in the city yesterday making an investigation of floodconditions in connection with the Arkansas River here. Mr. Walker was senthere on authority from the governor's office, it is reported, to investigatecomplaints being made to the state by farmers on the Arkansas River nearthe dam and also in the vicinity of the West Chestnut Avenue bridge.
He met the farmers, headed by Allen Chaplin,whose post office is Geuda Springs, at the Osage Hotel yesterday. They tooklunch at the hotel and in the afternoon, in company with C. B. Tingley ofthe Kansas Gas and Electric company, went to the vicinity of the dam andthe canal inlet 3½ miles northwest of the city. What the state engineer'sreport on his findings will be is not known. Attorney Albert Faulconer metwith the party at the Osage Hotel. He has some orchard land which he claimsis being damaged by channel conditions in the river. Farmers near the damcomplain that the bottom of the river is filling up just above the dam,which causes the water to spread out and in flood times doing much damageto their land.
The trouble near the Chestnut Avenue bridgeseems to be one of long standing, and arises from the fact that garbagehas been dumped at the west end of the bridge and filled in until the riverchannel has been narrowed to two bents of the bridge; and in high waterperiods, making it impossible for the narrow channel to properly carry offthe water.
It is claimed that both the city and countymay come in for damages resulting to adjacent land from channel conditionshere. Another feature that would be involved, it is said, is the fact thatseveral acres of new land has been made here, and some of this land haschanged hands, selling at a good price.
The present conditions have been slowly developingfor years past, being now a history which only the old-time citizens canrelate. There are indications now that something is going to be stirringin the not far distant future, and the final developments may be writtenin court records. What will grow out of the fact that the river channelat the Chestnut Street bridge is too narrow remains to be seen.
Also, what will grow out of conditions at thedam is as yet unwritten history. However, it is likely the state engineer'sreport will shortly be known.
Mr. Tingley reports that a force of men waslaid off at the new head gates this morning. This is due to the fact thata shipment of steel sheet piling has been held up on account of presentrailroad transportation conditions. Men are still at work making dirt fillsin the neighborhood of the headgates, but construction work on the gateswill be held up until material can be received.
[J. O. McGUAIRK BUYS CONNELLY & KARNESBUSINESS.]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922
J. O. McGuairk, of this city, has purchasedthe cold drink and lunch business of Connelly & Karnes, 111 South SummitStreet, taking charge yesterday. The place is to be known as "Mac'sBar." The new proprietor will redecorate and otherwise improve theplace. Light lunches and cold drinks, cigars and tobaccos, and watermelonand canteloupe in season, will be served.
A special that will be handled by McGuairk,is Dick Brother' Quincy Select, being keg goods, manufactured in Quincy,Ill. "Mac" has lived in Arkansas City all his life and is wellknown here. He has been employed in the oil fields near here for some timeand was formerly a city fireman.
[OIL NOTES: TREES BROTHERS.]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922
Trees Brothers are drilling at 125 feet in ClarkeNo. 6.
The Arkansas Fuel Oil company is drilling ata depth of 100 feet in a test on the Clarke ranch, two miles north of Akron.This is Clarke No. 6.
[MORE ABOUT P. B. ANDREWS]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922
It was with sincere regret that P. B. Andrews'West Bolton friends learned of his death. Mr. Andrews was one of West Bolton'spioneers and exerted marked influence in making this country what it is.He came here long before the railroad reached the city; and in company witha friend, another colored man, walked all the way to this place from Howard,Kansas. To hear Mr. Andrews tell of early day life and experiences in WestBolton was more than interestingit was like reading a romance. Mr. Andrewswas a true friend, a good man, patriotic, a fine citizen, and rejoiced whenhis country, his state, and his friends enjoyed blessings of peace and prosperity.For many years Peter Andrews and his estimable family resided on their farmin West Bolton. His wife, two daughters, and a son mourn his departure.His remains were interred in Mercer cemetery Tuesday afternoon.
[WAR DECLARED ON STRIKE TROOPS/ATTACK DUEIN NEWTON TO NIGHT.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Topeka, Aug. 19.The national guard unit at Newtonhas issued orders that all pool halls and picture shows there must closeat 6 p.m. tonight, Governor Allen announced today. The order, the governorsaid, grew out of persistent rumors that strike sympathizers intended to"get the guardsmen" tonight. This talk, according to reports reachingthe governor, has been prevalent since troops were sent to Newton last Saturday,following attacks on workmen in front of a theatre. Whether the ban willremain on at Newton depends on tonight's developments, the governor said.
The only other report of disturbance today,it was said, came from Kansas City, Kansas, where twice, within the lasttwo days, Rock Island and Union Pacific shopmen are reported to have beenslugged as they left work by men who escaped over the Missouri line in automobiles.Captain Smith of the adjutant general's office has gone there to investigate.Railroad officials report that apparently the sluggers were operating onsignals given by someone stationed at advantageous points about the yards,Governor Allen said.
Charges of violating the federal statutes byconspiring to deprive workers of their right to life, liberty, and the pursuitof happiness, were contained in complaints filed at Topeka today by FrankMcFarland, assistant United States district attorney, against six strikingshopmen, accused of assaulting the Orient shopmen at Wichita. The six are:R. H. Horgarus, E. H. Lutz, George Cathey, Sam Fulgreat, John Doe, and RichardRae. They are charged with having beaten O. R. Chal, W. A. Wilson, and otherOrient employees.
Warrants for the arrest of four men chargedwith picketing at the Topeka Santa Fe shops were also issued. The four areJoe C. Pulh, Oscar Bluemenstock, Charles Wiles, and Ed. Cratty.
[STRIKE OF BIG FOUR ON COAST IS CALLED OFF/SANTAFE RESUMES.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922 - FRONT PAGE.
Los Angeles, Aug. 19.The strike of the big fourbrotherhood on the coast lines of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railwaysystem has been called off and freight and passenger service will be resumedimmediately, it was announced today by I. L. Hibbard, general manager ofthe Santa Fe, who received word from Needles, Calif., the center of thetrouble on the coast lines, that the brotherhood representatives there hadreached the decision that the trainmen will return to work. The walkoutof trainmen on the Santa Fe was limited to the coast lines and the returnwill restore service to normal through the system, he said.
The return of the big four brotherhood men willeffect no change in the situation of the striking shopmen, General ManagerHibbard said. No terms have been made with the shopmen and the conferencesdealt solely with the operating trainmen.
[COWLEY COUNTY TREAS. HAS CERTIFICATES.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
Winfield, Kans., Aug. 19.Cowley County doesnot have to wait for its money tied up in the failure of the Traders StateBank at Arkansas City, as is the case with other depositors; but is ableto make arrangements for these funds, some forty thousand dollars, to beavailable to the county treasurer. County Treasurer Doane this morning notifiedthe county commissioners that he had distributed to other banks in the countyall the certificates of deposit issued by the bank's receiver as againstthe state guaranty fund, and these certificates will be carried by otherbanks.
This makes the funds represented in these certificatesas readily available as are any other deposits of the treasurer. The certificatesare payable within two years and draw six percent interest. By deposit contractsunder which the bank receives the county three percent interest on the dailybalances. The bank thus gets only three percent interest on the daily balances.The bank thus gets only three percent on the money advanced the county onthe certificates while the county loses nothing by the transaction.
Private depositors in the failed bank have hadto discount their certificates in order to raise ready money, it is said.Most people in this locality it transpires, including the county officials,had the idea that deposits in guaranteed banks would all be paid off withina short time after a receiver takes charge.
They have gone very little into the detailsof the working of the bank guarantee, as it applied to failures at placesdistant from Winfield. The discovery that it takes two to five years fordepositors to get their money is something of a jolt. A certificate drawingsix percent interest and discountable at ten percent or higher is littlecomfort to a person who has deposited money to meet a certain emergency,or with whom an emergency for the immediate need of ready cash has arisen.
[BATTERY F EQUIPMENT HERE: TWENTY HEAD OFFINE HORSES ARRIVE.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
Capt. W. B. Oliverson and his men of the A.C. Battery, Co. F, 161 K. N. G., have returned to the city and the men arenow in charge of the equipment at the armory located on South First street.Yesterday the horses for the use of the company arrived here from Fort Silland they are now being cared for at the fine stables located at the armory.The twenty horses are fine lookers and they are also a lively bunch of horseflesh. They will average 1400 pounds each and have been in training at FortSill, along with the A. C. men of the battery. These horses were at Hutchinsonbefore being sent to Fort Sill for training some weeks ago.
Besides the horses, the company also has someother new equipment and the armory presents a fine appearance at this time.There are 120 new outfits, two each for the 60 men of the company, now onhand and other equipment, as well, so the men have about all that they needat this time to go on with the work here. At the stables at this time arefour of the French 75 wheel guns, which were made in France. It is saidthat they were at one time in use in that country.
Captain Oliverson and the men of the batterywere well pleased with the treatment accorded them at the camp at Fort Sill,and this was the first opportunity they have had to be in training. Theyreceived many valuable ideas there. Captain Oliverson is going to arrangesoon for an exhibition in target shooting by the battery boys, the dateof which will be announced soon, he says.
[FIXING ROCK ROAD HIGHWAY NORTH OF WINFIELD.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
Winfield, Kans., Aug. 19.Work of getting therock road in the direction of Rock in better condition is now under way,County Engineer Ruggles stated this morning. The work crew is now two milesnorth of the end of the Rock road coming this way. The dirt road is smootheddown. The Rock road will be scarified, regraded, and then rolled; the edgeswill be smoothed down, and drainage improved.
[JUNIOR COLLEGE COURSE]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
It was given out today that up to the presenttime there are twenty-one students enrolled in the junior college course,of Arkansas City, who will begin their work in the new building September11. There are also prospects of 29 yet to be enrolled out of the class of"22", with 5 out of town inquiries, one from Osage county, 2 fromSumner county, and 2 from Bryan county.
It is estimated that between 50 and 60 studentswill be enrolled as freshmen in the college, and there will also be onegraduate this year.
Dorris Groves comes to the college with 30 hoursfrom the Oklahoma Baptist University, and will acquire 30 more in the juniorcollege, which graduates her this year, the first to have the opportunityto be graduated from the Junior College of Arkansas City.
There will be three teachers beside the dean,John B. Heffelfinger. E. E. Bayles, with an A. M. from Kansas State Universityin science, will teach chemistry and mathematics. Lulu McCandless, withan A. M. from California in history and an A. M. from Kansas State Universityin English, will teach English and assist in history. Miss Edna Willman,with an A. M. from Kansas State University, will teach Spanish.
The most popular course in the electives ischemistry and 18 out of the 21 already enrolled have elected the chemistrycourse. The second most popular course is economics.
The junior college will occupy a suite in thenorth wing of the second floor in the new senior high, and will be absolutelyseparated from the high school in all its organizations, chapels, and otheractivities. Dean Heffelfinger now has his office located in the new building,and he is a very busy man.
[TYLER MARSH & CLAUDE MITCHELL GOINGTO WASHBURN COLLEGE.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
At least two of Arkansas City's high schoolgraduates will attend Washburn College at Topeka, the coming college term.They are Tyler Marsh and Claude Mitchell. Both are well known local athletesand starred in basketball and football for several seasons. Mitchell attendedthe Southwestern College at Winfield last year, and was heard from in athleticsthere also. Marsh graduated here only last year. These two energetic boyswill work their way through college and both have already secured positionsfor the winter in Topeka. Marsh will take electrical engineering, and "Mitch"will study law.
[CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HOLDS LAW AND ORDERMEETING.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
Through the Chamber of Commerce, a "lawand order meeting" was called last evening, which met in the commissioners'room at the city building. In response to invitations sent out, a goodlynumber of citizens attended the meeting, which was in session from a littleafter 5 to about 6:30 p.m.
Ralph Brown, president of the chamber, statedthe purpose of the meeting. "The town is getting a good deal of undesirablenotoriety, and there are some unpleasant things going on; and it was thoughtadvisable for the chamber to call a meeting to see what could be done tomaintain law and order in this city," President Brown stated.
R. H. Rhoads, Secretary of the Chamber, spoke."The purpose of the meeting is to see if we cannot get a closer cooperationof businessmen and organizations of the city with a view of keeping downthe occurrences which are giving the town unfavorable notoriety," thesecretary said. "The idea of this meeting is to discuss the situationand receive suggestions, that is what we are here for."
At this juncture, Chas. Spencer, editor of theNews, spoke up. "We want to stop these beating up parties, wewant to make the town safe for people to walk on the street."
"How can it be done?" interjectedthe mayor. "There are several square miles covered by this city andwe can't have a policeman in all parts of the town at the same time; wecan't have a policeman everywhere."
Here is where the fireworks started, causinga wide detour from the original purposes of the meeting according to thebest understanding of those purposes as set forth by citizens present.
The mayor declared, "Somebody in ArkansasCity has been furnishing false reports to the governor about this city.I put this directly up to the governor. I wrote him a letter of inquiryas to the source of the information he was receiving. The governor evadedthe question. He did not comply with my request. He would not reveal thesource of information. We are doing all in our power to keep this undesirablestuff down. We can't do it all alone. We ask the cooperation of the citizens."
The mayor related some occurrences that tookplace when the present administration took charge, and which he said wasevidently done by some person unfriendly to the administra tion and withthe intent of embarrassing it all they could.
The mayor related, "For the first threeor four weeks after we took charge, false reports were repeatedly turnedin to the police department. The men would respond to the calls and wouldthen learn that the reports were absolutely without foundation."
A citizen from Sleeth addition thanked the mayorfor appointing a policeman for that addition, and asked that he be not takenoff; but if possible, that another man be put on. The spokesman for Sleethaddition said he believed that by having adequate police protection, a greatdeal of lawlessness would be held down that might otherwise break out.
A. H. Denton stated that the meeting was notfor strikebreakers and it was not against the strikers. "Let's nothave lawlessness taking place as an everyday condition. We are here to talkwith the administration for the purpose of adopting measures of stoppingthese beating up parties. Let's not have people beat up on the streets ifit takes a man in every corner to keep the peace. Let's have the law obeyed."
The first definite suggestion leading to a possiblesolution of the present situation in this city was made by Tom Parks ofthe Arkansas Valley Gas Company. He cited similar conditions that prevailedat one time in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The president of the chamber of commerceappointed ten men out of each club, and a method of patroling the streetswas worked out which had a very salutary effect upon the situation and thedesired results were achieved. Mr. Parks thought the same thing could bedone here.
Here a cross-fire controversy arose betweenthe mayor and the two newspaper men, Chas. Spencer of the News andR. C. Howard of the Traveler. The mayor charged that both papershad been against the administration, and had not given the police departmentsupport in their efforts to enforce the law.
Editor Spencer criticized the mayor and policedepartment with reference to the recent beating up of two men and citingother cases where parties had been beaten up; and in all cases, the partiesdoing the beating had made their escape. "In the case of the two menrecently beaten up, there was no entry made on the police record as to whothey were or where they were from," the editor complained.
According to the statement of the mayor, arrestscould not be made in this case because the two men both said they couldnot identify the men who made the attack.
Editor Howard arose to deny that the Travelerhad opposed the mayor and police department in the matter of law enforcement.He admitted that he had made a statement that the police were afraid ofChoc Collins, and at that time called attention to the fact that the policehad made no arrests in the Collins shooting case.
The mayor stated that Editor Howard had notopposed the former administration, whereupon Mr. Howard called attentionto the fact that it was a matter of record that he had made a fight on theadministration in his campaign for the adoption of the city manager formof government. "I do not care how much the newspapers oppose me orwhat they say about me," rejoined the mayor.
Again, the attention of the meeting was divertedto the purposes for which the meeting was called. It was pointed out thatunless the present lawlessness was stopped, serious conse quences were liableto result. It was suggested that a committee be appointed to confer withthe Santa Fe officials to get the cooperation of the railroad in the matterof keeping down lawlessness. Also, that the committee confer with the strikersto get their cooperation to the same end. It was evident that the troublehere has grown out of the class of men being brought in as railroad strikebreakers,and it was admitted that some of them were probably bad characters, andnot brought here to establish homes, but merely for the purpose of helpingto break the strike. The committee suggestion fell through as no committeewas ap pointed.
Albert Faulconer criticized the mayor for takingthe men in the shops as thugs, outlaws, gunmen, etc., stating that he believedthe mayor could help by not classing one group as outlaws, or showing specialsympathy for men of another group. Mr. Faulconer stated, "The presentsituation is critical, and law enforcement must be from the standpoint oftreating all citizens alike. I believe the citizens of the town will endorsethe increasing of the police force under the present conditions. The merepresence of a large police force will do a lot of good. There are two antagonisticgroups and there is an acute issue between them. If we don't get at thesefellows who are committing acts of violence and lawlessness, there is greatdanger that it will result in loss of life."
Richard Keefe stated: "I think it is upto the mayor and police department to maintain order; that it is their businessto find ways and means of so doing, and not for the citizens to tell themhow to do it. The people should back up the mayor and police in whatevermethods they deem necessary to bring about the desired results."
Chief Dailey, being called upon, said: "Ihave been doing all I could to find out who has been doing the fighting.I will be glad to receive any suggestions from citizens that may help tobring the guilty to justice."
Here someone suggested plain clothes men, menfrom out of town if necessary, detectives from organized bureaus.
Attorney W. L. Cunningham then took the floor."About ninety percent of the discussion and controversy here has nothad anything to do with the purpose of this meeting. The issue is not whetherthe Santa Fe is right. It is not whether the strikers are right. It is notwhether the strikebreakers are right.
"The issue is whether we shall have lawand order in this city. No doubt some of the strikebreakers are lawless,violent men, and handy with the gun. But we have not had one tenth the violencein this city that has taken place in Governor Allen's home town of Wichita.
"We all have a right to walk the streetsin security. It is the duty of the city to see that its citizens have thisprotection.
"I believe the police department has beenhandicapped by reducing the force in response to public demand for a curtailmentof expenses. The retrenchment policy under normal conditions is not applicableto the present situation. The citizens of this town should stay by the mayorand police department whether it takes one, ten, or fifty additional policeofficers to see that the law is enforced; and they should be paid out ofthe city treasury. That is what we pay taxes for. We want protection forour lives and property; and this protection should be forthcoming, regardlessof the number of police officers required or the expense incurred."
Someone suggested that Mr. Cunningham formulatehis declarations in a resolution, which he did as follows.
"Be it resolved that it is the sense ofthe body here assembled that we will stand by the city administration toa man in enforcing law and ordinances and in preserving order, and thatwe recommend and approve and urge the appointment of a sufficient numberof extra policemen to adequately protect the lives and property of all wholive here or happen to be within our city, and to this end we will standby the administration in incurring whatever expense may be necessary toproperly and adequately protect the lives and property within the city,and to preserve order."
Every man in the room arose to his feet as evidenceof his endorsem*nt of the above resolution. After all the turbulence ofthe meeting, it finally got down to brass tacks by thus pledging supportto the mayor and police in whatever methods may be necessary to secure lawand order for this city.
[MOORE REFINERY NOTES]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
This is the regular semi-monthly pay at theMoore refinery. The total amount being handed out in pay checks is saidto be in the neighborhood of $15,000.
Twenty-two cars of refined products are beingloaded today, two of them being lubricating oil.
J. J. Purcell, secretary-treasurer of the MooreRefining Company, is making an extended visit in Arkansas City. George N.Moore, president, and J. C. Lytle, superintendent of pipe lines, motoredto Tulsa today.
Robert Gilbert was a visitor at the plant today.He was auto repair man at the plant under the Mid-Co management.
James Smyer has been promoted from water boyto welder helper at the Moore refinery.
The Collinson Hardware Company and the Dealand Comley lumber companies delivered big loads of building material today,to be used in the construction of the new high pressure stills.
Some new furniture was installed in the officetoday.
Gauging is an important work at the Moore plant.There are about 100 outside tanks and these are gauged everyday. Gauge cardsare kept on file in the laboratory and general office. The general officemakes a record each day of just how much stock is on hand. Charles Bourmanis the head gauger.
[RAILROAD NOTES....NAME OF COLUMN IN PAPER.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
Santa Fe passenger train No. 406, north bound,was thirty minutes late in arriving here this morning. All the other trainswere about on schedule time at the Santa Fe station today.
There was another shipment of cots and beddingwhich arrived in the city this morning for the Santa Fe and a local draymantransferred them to the roundhouse, where they will be used for the accommodationof the strikebreakers, who are housed and fed at the roundhouse. It wasreported this morning at the Santa Fe that there are 100 to 150 men beingtaken care of at the roundhouse by the company at the present time. Mostof the men employed there remain on the ground all the time.
The Arkansas River Distributing Co., of thiscity, today shipped several car loads of casing out of here for Eureka,Kansas, over the Santa Fe.
Yesterday there was a representative of theHanlin Supply Co., sent here from Wichita, to be with the Santa Fe; andthe first night in the city he was given a cot to sleep on at the roundhouse.He said he could not stand that mode of living, as he was not used to it,and he gave up the job and returned to Wichita.
[ARKANSAS CITY CHAUTAUQUA WILL BEGIN MONDAYIN WILSON PARK.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
The Arkansas City Chautauqua assembly beginsMonday afternoon at Wilson Park at 2:45 p.m. The farmers of the communityand their families are to be guests of chautauqua and the local businessmen.The afternoon program will be given by the Phillips Sisters Highland Lassiesorchestra. The evening number at 7:45 p.m., with a 40 minutes prelude bythe Phillips Sisters, after which Dr. E T. Hagerman of New York will deliverhis famous address, "The Man With One Window."
Henry L. Carey will act as platform superintendent.Miss Mossie Snyder, perhaps the most experienced and competent supervisoron the Redpath circuits, will have charge of the Children's Junior Chautauqua.
The program this year includes two plays aswell as a notable list of speakers and entertainers. It is the most expensiveprogram the Redpath Horner chautauquas have ever presented, but the seasonticket prices in Arkansas City are the lowest of the entire 110 town circuit.The annual free ticket hunt for the children will be held in Wilson Parkat 10 a.m. Monday morning. Miss Snyder would like to meet the children atthat time. Miss Freida Post will act as assistant supervisor of junior chautauqua.
[LOCAL EX-COMEDIAN PROVIDED FUN FOR STRIKERS.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
The striking shopmen were entertained at theirmeeting this morning by the versatile James B. Woods, better known as "Jimmie,"an ex-comedian of big vaudeville time, and at present baggage master atthe Santa Fe depot.
Labor hall was well filled for the meeting,and the strikers greatly appreciated the entertainment which was furnishedgratis by Mr. Woods.
At the session this morning, the strikers wereagain urged to do all they could to help run down and locate the responsibilityfor the acts of violence taking place in this city; and in view of the meetingheld at the city building last evening, the striking shopmen were admonishedto support the mayor and police department and render every aid possiblefor the suppression of lawlessness and the enforcement of the law.
[MRS. JOHN MAUS SEVERELY BURNED BY EXPLOSION.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
Mrs. John Maus of North Second street was severelyburned yesterday by an explosion which occurred when she struck a matchfor the purpose of testing if gas was leaking in the warming oven of thekitchen range. She smelled gas and undertook to locate the leak. The leakwas in the warming oven and considerable gas had accumulated. Her experimentwith the match resulted in some burns about the face, burning off her eyebrows,severely burning her nose and right hand, and also giving her a bad scare.
Mrs. Maus is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M.McIntire.
[BOY SCOUTS]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
Executive W. H. Fisher, of the Ponca City councilof boy scouts, was in the city today in conference with Executive E. K.Kraul, with reference to making arrangements for the summer camp of thePonca City council.
Arrangements are being made to hold this campat the Green farm northeast of this city. According to the plans, the campwill open next Wednesday and continue for one week. Twenty-five boys ofthe Ponca City council have registered for attendance. Executive Fisherreports a strong organization of scouts at Ponca City.
[FAILED TO PURCHASE HOLT COFFEE HOUSE: W.A. DAVIS, DODGE CITY.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
W. A. Davis, who was in the city from DodgeCity for the purpose of purchasing the Holt Coffee house, failed to completethe purchase and has returned to his home at Dodge City. Mr. Davis informedthe Traveler that he thought he was almost sure of making the purchase,but later some hitch occurred and he gave the matter up.
[AD: SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922.]
J. O. McGuairk has purchased this popular fillingstation from Connelly & Karnes, at 111 South Summit. He has renamedit Mac's Bar. The place will be remodeled and redecorated.
[AD: SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922.]
